The All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Edo State, Monday Okpebholo, has won in Etsako West Local Government Area, where former Governor Adams Oshiomhole and reinstated Deputy Governor Philip Shaibu hail from.
Okpebholo polled 32,107 to defeat his Peoples Democratic Party counterpart, Asue Ighodalo, who got 17,483.
Shaibu rejoined the APC in the buildup to the election after a long battle between him and his boss, Governor Godwin Obaseki, who anointed Ighodalo ahead of him.
The PDP however rejected the results. The PDP agent for the election, Osaigbovo Iyoha, alleged that INEC manufactured the results in favour of the APC.
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“When you look at the figure declared, it is just manufacturing of results,” he said.
He alleged that collation in the area was stopped abruptly at a point, which he said paved the way for the manipulation of the results.
“The result is not a true reflection of what happened in Etsako West, we rejected the result,” he added.
Responding, acting APC chairman, Jarret Tenabe, insisted that the result was a true reflection of what happened in the election.
“If you throw away what belong to you, other people will take it. The Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, was removed from office and he joined us and that was the result of what happened,” he said.
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