The lone PNM coun­cil­lor elect­ed in the Ma­yaro/ Rio Claro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion took his oath of of­fice at the coun­cil cham­bers ear­li­er to­day.

How­ev­er, all five of the UNC coun­cil­lors failed to show up and none gave any of­fi­cial ex­pla­na­tion for their ab­sence.

The Cor­po­ra­tion's Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer Ash­mead Mo­hammed called the meet­ing at 10 am but no coun­cil­lor was present.

Perez walked in just af­ter 10:30 am.

Mo­hammed re­con­vened the meet­ing say­ing there was a pos­si­bil­i­ty that the oth­ers were caught in the traf­fic caused by the clo­sure of the Unipet has sta­tions.

When the meet­ing was called at 11 am, Mo­hammed made a roll call. He called the names of the coun­cil­lors three times but there was no an­swer.

The staff mem­bers wait­ed more than one hour and 15 min­utes be­fore Mo­hammed pro­ceed­ed with swear­ing-in of coun­cil­lor Wen­dell Charles Perez who was elect­ed un­der a PNM tick­et for the seat of Ma­yaro/ Guayagua­yare.

A source said the UNC took a de­ci­sion not to at­tend the swear­ing-in be­cause it was deemed un­con­sti­tu­tion­al hav­ing been called three days af­ter a re­count of the Guayagua­yare seat.