Members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State staged a protest on Wednesday at the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Benin City, the state capital.
The party supporters, who wielded placards and PDP insignia, called on the electoral umpire to reverse the results of the state’s September 21, 2024 governorship election announced a day after the poll.
The protesters insisted that PDP candidate, Asue Ighodalo, won the election; and not Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
They accused INEC of manipulating the election results in favour of the APC whose candidate was declared the state’s governor-elect.
INEC had declared Okpebholo the winner of the poll. The APC candidate, 54, secured 291,667 votes to defeat Ighodalo who got 247,274 votes and Olumide Akpata of the Labour Party (LP) who came a distant third in the race with 22,763 votes. Fourteen other candidates contested the seat but got less than the three frontline candidates.
