The All Progressives Congress (APC), Sokoto State Chapter has said its ready to participate in the forthcoming Local Governments election slated for September this year in the state.

The State Chairman, Alhaji Isah Sadiq Acida disclosed this while submitting the lists of the 23 Local Government Chairmanship candidates and 244 names of the Councillorship across the state to the State Independent Electoral Commission (SIEC).

Alhaji Acida said the APC has conducted its Primaries elections in the presence of the state electoral commission and the security agencies across the 23 council areas.

The Chairman who was accompanied by the party’s state executive members also assure to support and give all necessary support to the commission to enable it conduct a successful elections.

Receiving the documents, the Executive Chairman of the commission, Alhaji Aliyu Sulaiman said SIEC is fully ready to start the screening of all the candidates that declared interest and submitted their documents to the commission for participation in the elections.

Alhaji Sulaiman assured that no one will be witch hunt during the screening exercise as the commission’s role is to screen the candidate and to ensure that qualifies candidate are screened and emerge for the elections.

The chairman said the commission will start the screening on the 8th of August, this year and seemed the support and cooperation of the participating candidates to conduct successful elections.