APC’s Obaseki wins Edo Governorship Election

The candidate of the All Progressives
Congress, Godwin Obaseki, has been
declared winner of the Edo State
governorship election.
The APC candidate won majority of the
votes cast, getting a total of 319,483
votes, the Independent National
Electoral Commission, INEC,
announced.
Mr. Obaseki’s closest challenger, Osagie
Ize-Iyamu, got 253,173 votes.
Mr. Obaseki also won majority votes in
13 of the 18 local governments in the
state, losing the remaining five to the
PDP candidate.
The INEC chief returning officer in the
state, Professor Kayode Soremekun,
who announced the final results,
declared Mr. Obaseki the governor-
elect of the South-South state.
However, the PDP in the state has
rejected the results describing it as
adulterated.
“If you go by the results that were
announced at the polling units and
wards across the state, it shows the
PDP would have won by over 30,000
votes,” said Dan Orbih, the party’s
state chairman in a press conference.
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“What INEC is announcing is clearly
different from what we got from our
agents and independent observers in
the 192 wards and over 2,000 units
across the state.”
The PDP agent at the collation centre also refused to
sign the final result sheet.
“I cannot endorse it,” he told the INEC officials
present. “You said I should get ready for court
instead of looking at it here and now. I cannot be a
party to that,” he said.
The agent of the Young Democratic Party also
refused to sign the final result sheet.
“I have the mandate of the Young Democratic Party
not to append my signature on this result sheet,” he
said.