The Peoples Democratic Party<\/strong> (PDP) in Borno State has announced its withdrawal from the December 13 local government elections, citing a lack of confidence in the state\u2019s electoral body and prohibitive nomination form costs.<\/p>\n This was made known in a statement issued on Friday by the party\u2019s state Publicity Secretary, Amos Adziba, following a recent State Executive Committee (SEC) meeting held in Maiduguri.<\/p>\n Adziba said the party reached its decision after evaluating the preparedness of the Borno State Independent Electoral Commission (BOSIEC), which it accused of bias and lacking transparency.<\/p>\n \u201cThe BOSIEC did not give the opposition parties substantial reasons to build confidence in the credibility and fairness of the election,\u201d<\/em> the statement read.<\/p>\n He added, \u201cSince the state government has not amended the bill, it means that it will be business as usual for the APC to ambush other political parties with electoral frauds.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The PDP also criticised what it described as exorbitant charges for expression of interest and nomination forms, accusing the electoral body of being insensitive to the current economic hardship.<\/p>\n \u201cPDP alleged that the state electoral body is unmindful of the harsh prevailing economic challenges in the country by demanding high purchase of expression of interest and nomination forms,\u201d<\/em> Adziba noted.<\/p>\n Another key grievance raised by the opposition party was the failure of the APC-led government to amend the electoral bill to allow for transparent collation and announcement of results.<\/p>\n The party demanded that the councillorship election results be declared at ward levels and chairmanship results at local government headquarters, warning that the current structure enables manipulation.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the ruling All Progressives Congress had earlier declared its readiness to participate in the elections. At a press conference in October, state APC Chairman, Bello Ayuba, confirmed the party\u2019s preparedness.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have written to the Borno State Independent Electoral Commission that our party is ready to take part in the forthcoming local government elections,\u201d<\/em> Ayuba said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a9 2025 Abia Radio News, a division of Tee Global Innovataions. Contact us via [email\u00a0protected]<\/strong><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Borno State has announced its withdrawal from the December 13 local government elections, citing a lack of confidence in the state\u2019s electoral body and prohibitive nomination form costs. This was made known in a statement issued on Friday by the party\u2019s state Publicity Secretary, Amos Adziba, following a recent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":237811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[800,251],"class_list":["post-238192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-borno-state","tag-pdp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PDP-logo.webp.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}