The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Monday
Okpebholo, has been declared the winner of the Edo state
governorship election.
He was declared the winner of the election by Farouk Adamu, the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) returning
officer, on Sunday, in Benin City, the Edo state capital.
Okpebholo, a serving senator, won the election with 291,667 votes to
defeat his closest rival, Asue Ighodalo of the Peoples’ Democratic
Party (PDP), who polled 247,274 votes.
Olumide Akpata, the candidate of the Labour Party, came a distant
third with 22, 763 votes.
The APC won the election in 11 out of the 18 local government areas
in Edo while the PDP secured victories in the remaining seven local
council areas.
Prior to the final declaration, some PDP supporters had staged a
protest against the collation of the election results, near the INEC
headquarters where the results were collated, claiming that some
results were “manufactured” in favour of the APC.
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