Edo election: APC, PDP lead as INEC uploads 94% of results on IRev

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has uploaded 93.76 percent results of the Edo governorship election on the viewing portal (IReV).

As at the time of filing this report, a total of 4,237 results out of 4,519 have been uploaded on the IReV.

While APC and PDP maintains lead in their different strongholds, Labour Party and it’s candidate are officially out of the race.

Speaking earlier in an interview with Arise Television, Anugbum Onuoha, the resident electoral commissioner (REC) in Edo, said the governorship election results will be transmitted electronically.

“You know that we have 4,519 pulling units across the 18 local governments, and so far we have deployed 4,622 BVAS to the various local governments. And we also have a backup of 660 BVAS,” he said.

“We have trained the operators for the BVAS. They are set. BVAS is to accredit the voters, to know the total number of voters that will vote at that level, that polling unit.

“That is the state we are in now. Rest assured that we’ll conduct an election that we can call our own.

Onuoha, however, warned that poor networks could hinder the transmission of results to the viewing portal (IReV).

“The results will all be transmitted electronically? Is that what you’re saying? Yes. Thank you.
“Yes, unless there is no network in that place. We will transmit it.” he said.

With more than 2.2 million permanent voter cards collected, candidates from various parties, including Senator Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressives Congress, Asue Ighodalo of the Peoples Democratic Party, and Olumide Akpata of the Labour Party, are competing for the governorship position.

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The winner will succeed Governor Godwin Obaseki, who will leave Osadebe House on November 11 after completing two terms in office.

Guardian had earlier reported that both the PDP and APC candidates won their respective polling units respectively, while labour Party candidate Olumide Apata lost his unit.