Governor Oshomhole, Governor-elect Obaseki and Deputy Governor-elect Phillip Shuaibu |
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the Edo
State governorship election, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has been declared winner of
the poll by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
He defeated his main rival and candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, with 66,310 more votes.
Obaseki polled 319,483 votes as against Ize-Iyamu’s 253, 173
votes.
INEC’s Returning Officer, Prof. Kayode Soremekun, who
declared Obaseki winner, said he had met all conditions required to be returned
as governor elect for the state.
Obaseki had claimed an early lead in the poll, but half way
into the election, the tie had been evenly posed with results appearing to be
likely to swing in either candidate’s direction.
With results for nine of the 18 local government areas in
the state collated around 11am, Obaseki had won five LGAs and polled 142,424
votes as against Ize-Iyamu’s four LGAs and 136,808 votes.
The results for the remaining nine local governments,
however, saw the APC candidates lead widen, paving way for his victory.
The collation and announcement of the result was not without
incident.
Hundreds of PDP supporters held a protest at the INEC office
in Benin where the exercise was taking place.
The protesters alleged that results from their areas were
manipulated and that there results were cancelled in areas that were PDP
strongholds. They called on INEC to suspend collation of result from the areas,
including Esan North-East LGA.
The protesters were, however, dispersed by the police with
tear gas as the protest became more heated.
Also, some agents, including that of KOWA Party, called for
the cancellation of the result, with others, including the APC candidate urging
them to go to court.
Also, PDP’s agent, Chris Agbonwanegbe, refused to sign the
result sheet, saying it was “rehearsed and produced”.
See collated results for all LGAs below:
1. Owan West
APC: 12,862
PDP: 10,132
2. Egor
APC: 26,177
PDP: 19,514
3. Esan
North East
APC: 9,130
PDP: 16,220
4. Igueben
APC: 7,802
PDP: 7,560
5. Uhunmwode
APC: 10,911
PDP: 8,667
6 Esan South East
APC: 9,554
PDP: 11,466
7. Oredo
APC: 37,612
PDP: 30,492
8. Orhionmwon
APC: 15,262
PDP: 16,446
9. Esan West
APC 13,114
PDP 16,311
10. Owan East
APC: 21, 233
PDP: 12,889
11. Ovia North East
APC: 17,561
PDP: 13,141
12. Esan
Central
APC: 9,781
PDP: 10,180
13. Etsako
East
APC: 18,078
PDP: 12,552
14. Etsako
Central
APC: 10,373
PDP: 8,827
15. Etsako
West
APC: 29,199
PDP: 10,843
16. Ikpoba-Okha
APC: 33,469
PDP: 26,096
17. Akoko-Edo
APC: 24,545
PDP: 13,027
Ovia South-West
APC: 12,820
PDP: 8,810
Total:
APC: 319,483
PDP: 253,173
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