Okpebholo emerged victorious after brushing aside his closest challenger and PDP candidate, Ighodalo to win the keenly contested Edo governorship election.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Senator Monday Okpebholo, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the winner of the hotly-contested Edo governorship election.
Okpebholo secured a total of 291,667 votes to defeat his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Asue Ighodalo, who got 247,274 votes while Olumide Akpata of the Labour Party (LP) came a distant third in the race with 22,761 votes.
“That Okpebholo Monday of APC having satisfied the requirement of the law is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected,” INEC’s Returning Officer for the poll, Prof Faruk Kuta, said
