The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has rejected the results of the just concluded Edo State Governorship election. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Sunday announced the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Monday Okpeholo winner of the election.
Okpeholo defeated the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Asue Ighodalo and Labour Party, LP, Akpata.
But reacting to the result as declared by the INEC, the acting National Chairman of PDP, Amb. Umar Damagum stated the rejection of the results.
Damagum announced this at an ongoing media briefing in Abuja, on Monday.
He insisted that the people of Edo State voted for the PDP’s candidate, Dr. Asue Ighodalo and expect nothing less than him being announced as governor-elect.
The acting National Chairman, therefore, charged the INEC to use the window left in the Electoral Act to do the right thing by retracing its steps.
According to him, the PDP had raised the alarm of plans by the All Progressives Congress, APC, working in cohorts with “the compromised INEC and the AIG of Police in charge of the zone,” to manipulate the process long before they executed their plot”.
