The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has officially declared Monday Okpebholo, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the 2024 governorship election conducted in Edo State on Saturday.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Okpebholo was declared winner of the Edo State governorship election and Governor-Elect on Sunday by the INEC Returning Officer in charge of the election, Prof. Faruk Adamu Kuta.
“Candidate of the APC having satisified the requirement of the law is hereby declared the winner of the election,” declared Kuta, who is the Vice-Chancellor of Federal University of Technology, Minna.
According to the results declared by Kuta, Okpebholo won the election by 291,667 votes, defeating his closest rival, Asue Ighodalo, candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), who polled a total of 247,274 votes.
TNG reports candidate of the Labour Party in the 2024 governorship election conducted in Edo State, Olumide Akpata, came a distant third in the election, polling a total of 22,763 votes.
See breakdown of the final results as declared by INEC below:
- A – 222
- AA – 206
- AAC – 273
- ADC – 1956
- ADP – 1099
- APC – 291667
- APGA – 1242
- APM 151
- APP – 144
- BP – 217
- LP – 22763
- NNPP – 1034
- NRM – 727
- PDP 247274
- PRP – 6235
- SDP – 537
- YPP – 296
- ZLP – 254
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