Ismail Abdulazeez Mantu Reporting
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Monday Okpebholo, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the Saturday 21, 2024 governorship election in Edo state.
Okpebholo polled 291,667 votes to as against second place Asue Ighodalo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who polled 247,274 and Olumide Akpata of the Labour Party (LP) who came a distant third in the race with 22,761 votes. Fourteen other candidates contested the seat but got less than the three frontline candidates.
“That Okpebholo Monday of APC having satisfied the requirement of the law is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected,” INEC’s Returning Officer for the poll, Prof Faruk Kuta, said at exactly 09:27pm, to delightful cheers from APC supporters at the collation centre in Benin City, the state capital on Sunday.
Kuta, the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Minna, in Niger State, declared the winner of the poll after series of recesses.
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