Edo Guber: APC coasts to victory as INEC concludes results collation

The All Progressives Congress candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo, is leading in the total results of Saturday’s Edo State governorship election announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Returning Officer, Prof. Faruk Adamu Kuta, the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, is yet to officially announce the winner of the poll as of filing the report.

Meanwhile, the results from all 18 local government areas of the state showed that APC won 11 LGAs compared to the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, Asue Ighodalo and Olumide Akpata of the Labour Party.

Okpebholo garnered 291,667 votes while Ighodalo and Akpata had 247,274 and 18,737 votes respectively.

This is as the PDP candidate won Seven LGAs in the state.

The votes come from a total of 2.2 million voters with permanent voter cards across the 18 Local Government Areas and 4,519 polling units in Edo State.

The winner of the election will take over Osadebe House in Edo State from the outgoing Godwin Obaseki.

The details is as follows:

Ikpoba-Okha

APC- 16,338

LP- 2,026

PDP-26,382

Oredo LGA

APC- 30,780
LP-5389
PDP- 24,938

Etsako West LGA:

APC : 32,107

PDP : 17,483

LP : 2,116

Etsako Central LG

APC:11,906

PDP: 8,455

LP: 381

Etsako East LG

APC: 20,167

PDP: 9,683

LP: 604

Egor Local Government Area.

APC: 16,760

LP: 1,966

PDP: 14,658

Ovia North-East LG

APC: 13,225

PDP: 15,311

LP: 1,675

Uhunmwonde LG

APC: 8,776

PDP: 9,339

LP: 769

Owan West LG

APC: 12,277

PDP: 11,284

LP: 201

Esan West LG

APC: 12,952

PDP: 11,004

LP: 342

Igueben LG

APC: 5,907

PDP: 8,470

LP: 494

Akoko-Edo LG

APC: 34,847

PDP: 15,865

LP: 2,239

Esan South-East LG

APC: 8,398

PDP: 14,199

LP: 98

Esan Central LG

APC: 10,990

PDP: 8,618

LP: 418

Esan North-East LG

APC: 10,648

PDP: 12,522

LP: 194

Ovia South-West LG

APC: 10,150

PDP: 10,260

LP: 849

Owan East, LG

APC: 19,380

PDP: 14,189

LP: 446

Orhionmwon LG

APC: 16,059

PDP: 14,614

LP: 556

Edo Guber: APC coasts to victory as INEC concludes results collation