By CHARLES IWUOHA

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has swept all the chairmanship and positions in the 17 Local Government Areas in the council polls held on Saturday.

The Chairman of Enugu State Independent Electoral Commission (ENSIEC), Professor Christian Ngwu, who declared the results on Sunday in Enugu, said the Commission did an excellent job of conducting free, fair and credible polls.

Ngwu, who also doubles as the returning officer for the chairmanship positions for the polls, said that ENSIEC carefully collated and analysed the results to ensure that there were no mistakes.

He, however, said that the commission was yet to get a full compilation of results of the 260 ward councilorship positions declared at the various 17 council areas headquarters.

Expressing joy at the victory of the state's ruling party, PDP, the Chairman-elect for Oji River Local Government Area, Mr Greg Amyaegbudike, said that he would make youth empowerment his priority.

Anyaegbudike said that he would make sure that those who are employable would be provided with jobs as well as organise skills acquisition programme that would benefit all.

"I will make sure that the youth of Oji River council area are gainfully employed. Those who are employable, will definitely get employed under my administration," the chairman-elect said.