Only five political parties in Kwara State registered to participate in the state local government polls fixed for September 21, 2024.
The political parties are All Progressives Congress, APC, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, All Peoples Movement, APM, Social Democratic Party, DSP, and Accord Party, AP.
Mohammed Baba Okanla, Chairman of the Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission, KWASIEC, disclosed this at the 42nd edition of the Media Parliament held by the Kwara State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, in Ilorin on Wednesday.
Similarly, over 21,000 jobless people applied for ad hoc jobs for next Saturdays local government elections in the state, but about 7,000 applicants were eventually considered.
The commission disclosed its readiness to conduct a hitch-free local government election across the 2,887 polling units in the 16 local government areas of the state.
