The Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State, Monday Okpebholo, has been declared the winner of Saturday’s governorship election in the state having polled 291,667 votes to defeat his closest challenger and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Asue Ighodalo, who scored 247,274 votes
Penpushing reports that the returning officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Faruk Kuta, made the declaration at precisely 9:27 p.m. on Sunday at the State Collation Centre in Benin City.
The Returning Officer who is the Vice-cChancellor 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, adding that the candidate of the Labour 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 majority of the lawful votes, is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected’, the returning officer declared
Penpushing further reports that the final results, however, showed that Okpebholo won in 11 local government areas in the state while Ighodalo won in seven, and the Akpata, did not win in any local government area.
The ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state has protested against the election result alleging that it was manipulated in favour of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, arguing that it did not reflect the votes cast at polling units.
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