INEC Declares APC’s Monday Akpebholo Winner Of Edo State Governorship Election
Earlier, Dez Mayorz News projected the APC candidate winner of the Edo State election.
In affirmative, the returning officer Mr Kuta, a professor and vice-chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State, announced the final results after collating results from the 18 local government areas of the state.
The returning officer said Mr Okpebholo polled 291,667 votes to defeat his closest challenger and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Asue Ighodalo, who scored 247,274 votes.
The candidate of the Labor Party (LP), Olumude Akpata, came a distant third with 22,763 votes.
“That Monday Okpebholo of the APC, having satisfied all the requirements of law and scored the majority of the lawful votes, is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected,” Mr. Kuta declared.
The final results showed that Mr. Okpebholo won in 11 local government areas in the state while Mr. Ighodalo won in seven.
The candidate of the Labor Party, Mr Akpata, did not win in any local government area.
Meanwhile, the PDP in the state has protested against the election result, which it alleged was manipulated in favor of the APC candidate.
Earlier, Tony Iyoha, the PDP state agent, said the results did not reflect the votes cast at polling units.
Mr Iyoha asked the electoral officials to suspend further collation of results because the election process did not follow the procedures of the electoral body.
But Mr Kuta asked those who have issues with the exercise to file a formal petition against it.
