Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Godwin Obaseki has been returned winner of the Edo governorship election held Wednesday.Immediately the final result was declared at about 4:30 pm, people took to the streets with brooms celebrating the APC and Obaseki’s victory.After his acceptance speech, Obaseki left to join the people in celebration at the ring road round about, Benin City.He polled 319,483 votes representing a little over 50 percent of the 613,244 votes cast.Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) polled 253 172 votes to come second. Meanwhile, the PDP candidate Ize-Iyamu has described the outcome as a ‘sham’ saying it did not reflect the huge turnout of voters in the state.He alleged that the result of the election was written at the State government house in Benin, ahead of the election, with connivance of some INEC officials and the security agencies. Also, Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led National Caretaker Committee of the PDP has called on the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris to order the arrest of one Mr. Osakpanwam Eriyo.The committee in a statement yesterday by its spokesman, Prince Dayo Adeyeye alleged that Eriyo a partisan of Governor Adams Oshiomhole had invaded Oredo Local Government Area with his team during the collation of results, forcefully removing all the result sheets for the area.
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