By Adadareporters
Monday Okpebholo, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has won the Edo governorship election.
Okpehbolo scored 291,667 votes to defeat his Peoples Democratic Party’s counterpart, Asue Ighodalo, who recorded 247,274 LGs. Our correspondent reports that Ighodalo won seven LGs.
The returning officer for the election, Prof Faruk Adamu Kuta, the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Minna, announced the results on Sunday.
According to him, the candidate of the Labour Party, Olumide Akpata, did not win any LG. He polled 26,789 votes.
The election was held on Saturday across 21 local government areas of the state.
The PDP raised questions about the election rejecting results of the Egor and Akoko Edo local governments won by the All Progressives Congress.
PDP’s agent, Osagbovo Iyoha, claimed irregularities in the collation of results. He said INEC manufactured the result in favour of APC and that the collation centre was moved to another place instead of the council headquarters.
He said the PDP won Egor local government but APC was declared winner.
He also alleged that the PDP agents were locked out of the collation centre, leaving only the agents of the APC, adding that the result of Akoko-Edo local government was manufactured as the votes cast were above the one captured by BVAS.
Responding, the APC acting chairman Jarret Tenabe, said the votes were a reflection of the will of the people.
On Akoko-Edo, he said all the issues in the election were dealt with during results collation and that the votes declared reflected what was captured in the BVAS.
