Edo Election: PDP heading to court

Edo Election: PDP heading to court

Hours after the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared Senator Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the winner of Edo State governorship election, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has vowed go to court to retrieve its “stolen mandate”

PDP acting National Chairman, Amb. Umar Damagum, announced the party’s position at a briefing in Abuja, charging Edo people “to remain resolute and undeterred as our party takes sure and firm steps to retrieve the mandate with every means legal and available in a democracy.”

The Labour Party, LP, candidate, Mr. Olumide Akpata, who dismissed Saturday’s poll as a transaction and democratic sacrilege by the APC and PDP, said he has submitted the results to lawyers for forensic analysis, which would inform his next step.

The position of PDP comes on a day one of the civil society groups that monitored the election, Yiaga Africa, said the election failed integrity test, just as the Centre for Democracy and Development, CDD, asked INEC to review its IReV uploads amid discrepancies.

INEC had on Sunday night, returned Okpebholo as governor-elect after polling 291,667 votes, against Dr Asue Ighodalo of the PDP’s 247,566 votes and Akpata’s 22,763 votes.

Similarly, the presidential candidate of LP in the 2023 election, Mr Peter Obi, said what transpired in Edo was state capture, not election.

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