Voters on queue
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The All Progressives Congress, APC, has widened its lead in the Edo governorship election held on Saturday.
So far, the party has won 16 out of the 18 local government areas declared, leading with a massive over 48000 votes ahead of its closest rival, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP.
This was according to Faruq Kuta, a professor and vice-chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State, the Returning Officer, who announced the results at the INEC headquarters in Benin city on Sunday.
The INEC is yet to announce results from the remaining two more local government areas but Kuta has announced a recess.
He said the collation of the remaining two local government areas would commence by 5 p.m.
Details of announced LG results:
Esan Central
Akoko Edo
Egor
Esan South-East
Ovia North-East
Uhunmwonde
Owan West
Esan West
Igueben
Esan North East
Ovia South West
Orhionmwon
Owan East
Etsako East
Etsako Central
Etsako West.
From the results announced, the Labour Party, LP, is obviously not in the reckoning, coming a distant third, with less than 12000 votes.
The Edo gubernatorial election was relatively peaceful although there were some incidents of vote buying, ballot snatching, etc.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had arrested some suspected vote buyers in the state while Dudu Orumen, a PDP chieftain, alleged that some ballot boxes were snatched.
The Governor Obaseki had also stormed the INEC headquarters in the state to register his displeasure over how the Electoral processes were being handled.
However, pundits, who had predicted a straight fight between the Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress, have been proven right.
There were acrimonious and unsavoury exchanges between the two parties in the lead up to the election, leading to the description of the exercise as a ‘do or die’ affair by Governor Godwin Obaseki, who complained of underhand dealings by the APC.
In one of such encounters, former Governor Adams Oshiomhole, now an APC senator, mocked Obaseki for being childless.
However, Obaseki’s wife responded to the tasteless comments by explaining that she was not barren but had had miscarriages.
