#EdoDecides: Checkout INEC official results
The voting in Edo state was concluded on Wednesday, September 28, with many going all out to support their preferred candidates.
Edo Elections
The Edo election has been tagged two horse race between the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), though nineteen candidates are vying for the ticket to the Government House.
Edo state has a total of 1,925,105 registered voters; 192 Registration Areas (RAs); 2,627 Polling Units (PUs); and 4,011 Voting Points (VPs). A total of 25,000 police officers were deployed across the state to ensure peace and security during the polls, while 44 observer groups were accredited by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as election monitors.
Following conclusion of voting on Wednesday, INEC has said that there are no results yet, informing that collation of results for the governorship election would begin today, September 29.
It was gathered that the decision to commence the collation today is in connection with the late arrival of results from the 18 local government areas.
Shortly after conclusion of elections in all parts of Edo state, some unofficial results began to trickle in, with the PDP taking an initial lead, and the APC taking over somewhere midway.
Reports suggest that after collation of 727 Polling Units out of 2,672 Units in Edo state, APC has a total of 69,196votes while PDP has 75,088votes; with over 13000 rendered invalid.
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The official report by INEC is still awaited, and sources say the results might be announced within the hour.
NAIJ.com is on ground in Benin to bring you minute-by-minute report regarding the election results.
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9:35 Questions raised over cancelled vote
Esan North East
APC 9130
PDP 16220
Colation officer for Esan North East takes the stage
Owan West:
APC 12, 862
PDP 10, 132,
Official from Owan West LGA kick starts the announcement process.
9:08am: INEC begins proceedings to announce the election results.
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