The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the outcome of the Edo governorship election, which was held on Saturday, September 21, 2024.
Acting National Chairman of the party Amb. Umar Damagum announced this at an ongoing media briefing in Abuja, on Monday.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday declared Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressive Congress (APC) the winner of the election.
State returning officer Professor Faruk Adamu Kuta, who is also the Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Technology, said Okpebholo scored 291,667 votes while PDP’s candidate, Asue Ighodalo, got 247,274 votes, and Labour Party candidate Olumide Akpata finished third with 22,763 votes.
Damagun in his address on Monday 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.
Damagum 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”.