Edo State election: What Okpebholo said after casting his vote

Monday Okpebholo, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the ongoing governorship election in Edo State has casted his vote, not without taking a swipe at incumbent Governor Godwin Obaseki.

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TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Okpebholo, who was accredited and voted at PU 001, Uwessan 1, in Esan Central local government area of the State, boasted that the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) will not get any vote at the polling unit.

“I just go there and voted. That is the way it is right now. I believe the way it is, it should be like that everywhere. It is okay here but I do not know of other places. But what I am seeing here is like a testimony that INEC is getting it right.

“A couple of friends are calling me to say I am getting a lot of votes from different places but I am not there. I am here. Here I know that PDP or whatever will not get one vote because this is my home and my people love me. So, for that reason, I have nothing to fear in my home.

“Me, I know that everything they are saying about security is hyping. Nobody is fighting. As you can see, no knockout is fired, not even a stick of matches. So, it is just to scare people away from voting.

“You know Obaseki, his wisdom, I dont know. He wanted to cause crisis in Edo State. Everything is okay. By the grace of God, everything is moving perfectly,” Okpebholo.

TNG reports as of 9:47 am candidate of the PDP in the 2024 Edo governorship election, Asue Ighodalo was yet to cast his vote at Idrion Vocational Centre, a voting centre at Okaegben, Ewohimi, Esan South East Local Government Area of Edo, where he is expected to vote.

Ighodalo is expected to vote at Okaegben ward one, polling unit 3, located at the vocational centre in Ewohimi, Edo Central Senatorial District, but officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and election materials were yet to arrive at the polling unit as a result of heavy rainfall.