BREAKING: Edo Guber: APC coasts to victory as INEC concludes results collation

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The All Progressives Congress candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo, is leading in the total results of Saturday’s Edo State governorship election announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Returning Officer, Prof. Faruk Adamu Kuta, the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, is yet to officially announce the winner of the poll as of filing the report.

Meanwhile, the results from all 18 local government areas of the state showed that APC won 11 LGAs compared to the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, Asue Ighodalo and Olumide Akpata of the Labour Party.

Okpebholo garnered 291,667 votes while Ighodalo and Akpata had 247,274 and 18,737 votes respectively.

This is as the PDP candidate won Seven LGAs in the state.

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The votes come from a total of 2.2 million voters with permanent voter cards across the 18 Local Government Areas and 4,519 polling units in Edo State.

The winner of the election will take over Osadebe House in Edo State from the outgoing Godwin Obaseki.

The details is as follows:

Ikpoba-Okha

APC- 16,338

LP- 2,026

PDP-26,382

Oredo LGA

APC- 30,780

LP-5389

PDP- 24,938

Etsako West LGA

APC: 32,107

PDP: 17,483

LP: 2,116

Etsako Central LGA

APC:11,906

PDP: 8,455

LP: 381

Etsako East LGA

APC: 20,167

PDP: 9,683

LP: 604

Egor LGA

APC: 16,760

LP: 1,966

PDP: 14,658

Ovia North-East LGA

APC: 13,225

PDP: 15,311

LP: 1,675

Uhunmwonde LG

APC: 10,150

PDP: 10,260

LP: 849

Owan East, LG

APC: 19,380

PDP: 14,189

LP: 446

Orhionmwon LGA

APC: 16,059

PDP: 14,614

LP: 556

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