September 22, 2024 | 07:06PM ET |
Live Updates:
- INEC has declared the APC governorship candidate in Edo, Monday Okpebholo, as the winner of the Edo governorship election 2024
- INEC on Sunday, September 22, announced the winner of the election in Benin City, the State capital
- Okpebholo was declared winner following controversies between the PDP and Gov. Obaseki over allegations of electoral manipulation
On Saturday, September 21, 2024, the people of Edo State in South-South Nigeria voted to elect a new governor to succeed the incumbent, Godwin Obaseki, whose constitutional eight-year double terms ends on November 12, 2024.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has uploaded the results of the governorship election from 4,259 of the polling units in the state. There are 4519 polling units in the state.
INEC will receive the results for each of the Local Government Areas in the state, and then collate them before the winner of the election is determined and announced.
Though 17 candidates are contexting for the office, analysts have described the forthcoming poll as a three-horse race involving Asue Ighodalo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Olumide Akpata of the Labour Party (LP).
This is a developing story…
