As APC, PDP Await Final Declaration of Winner of Edo Election
- BY Safiu Kehinde and Halimah Olamide
The much awaited last local government result for Ikpoba Okha in Edo State has been released. The announcement at about 8:48pm on Sunday marked the end of the release of results of the Saturday’s governorship poll in the state.
The result showed that PDP won the local government with 26,382 votes while the APC scored a total of 16,338 votes.
The Labour Party won a total of 4,026 votes in the election.
The conclusion of collation from all the 18 local governments will now lead to the final collation for the announcement of the overall winner of the election.
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The Independent National Electoral Commission has commenced the announcement of results of the governorship election conducted in Edo state on Saturday.
The announcement, taking place at the office of the commission in Benin under very tight security.
Below are the results as announced by the Electoral Officers from each of the Local Governments:
LOCAL GOVERNMENT and RESULTS AS RELEASED BY INEC
IGUEBEN
APC – 5907
PDP – 8470
LP – 494
ESAN WEST
APC – 12,952
PDP – 11,004.
LP – 342
OWAN WEST
APC – 12,277
PDP – 11,284
LP – 201
Uhunmwonde LG
APC – 8,776
PDP – 9,339
LP – 769
Ovia North East
APC: 13,225
PDP: 15,311
LP: 1675
Esan South East
APC: 8,398
PDP: 14,199
LP: 98
Akoko Edo LG
APC: 34,847
PDP: 15,865
LP: 2239
Esan Central LG
APC: 10,990
PDP: 8618
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
Orhionmwon LG
APC: 16,059
PDP: 14,614
LP: 556
Owan East LG
APC: 19,380
PDP: 14,189
LP: 446
Estako East LG
APC: 20,167
PDP: 9683
LP: 604
Estako Central LG
APC: 11,906
PDP: 8455
LP: 381
Estako West LG
APC: 32,107
PDP: 17,483
LP: 2116
Estako Central LG
APC: 11,906
PDP: 8455
LP: 381
Collation Resumed
Oredo LG A
APC- 30,780
PDP- 24,938
LP- 5,389
IKPOBA OKHA
APC: 16,338
PDP: 26,382
LP: 4026