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The Peoples Democratic Party on Monday said that it would challenge the outcome of the Edo State governorship election at the election petitions tribunal.
The Independent National Electoral Commission had last Thursday declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Godwin Obaseki, as the winner of the election.
Obaseki had a total of 319,483 votes while his counterpart in the PDP, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, polled 253,173 votes to come second., according to INEC official result.
The opposition as well as their candidate, Pastor Ize Iyamu had rejected the result, which it described as a fraud, and accused INEC of alleged complicity.
The Edo State PDP Chairman, Chief Dan Orbih, told PUNCH in Benin, the Edo State capital, that the party would leave nothing to chance to prove that the result was manipulated and that it would also expose the alleged corruption and incompetence of the electoral commission.
He, therefore, called for the dissolution of the present leadership of the INEC.
The Independent National Electoral Commission had last Thursday declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Godwin Obaseki, as the winner of the election.
Obaseki had a total of 319,483 votes while his counterpart in the PDP, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, polled 253,173 votes to come second., according to INEC official result.
The opposition as well as their candidate, Pastor Ize Iyamu had rejected the result, which it described as a fraud, and accused INEC of alleged complicity.
The Edo State PDP Chairman, Chief Dan Orbih, told PUNCH in Benin, the Edo State capital, that the party would leave nothing to chance to prove that the result was manipulated and that it would also expose the alleged corruption and incompetence of the electoral commission.
He, therefore, called for the dissolution of the present leadership of the INEC.