First Edo 2024 Election Result Emerges

First Edo 2024 Election Result has emerged.

Newsone Nigeria reports that the people of Edo State, southern Nigeria, trooped out to elect a new governor for another four-year term in an election conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Nigeria’s electoral umpire.

This online news platform understands that Nigeria’s ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), hopes to reclaim power in the state after Governor Godwin Obaseki dumped the party in 2019 to seek re-election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Nigeria’s main opposition party.

Before Obaseki’s decision, Edo State was an APC stronghold, however, internal crisis in the APC forced Obaseki to dump the national ruling party to the main opposition.

In the build-up to the election, Asue Ighodalo of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressives Congress, and Labour Party’s Olumide Akpata, have emerged as top contenders for the Edo 2024 Governorship Election.

Seventeen candidates are vying for the governorship position, with sixteen men and one woman in the running.

They include… Action Alliance, AA, – Tom Iseghohi, New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP – Azena Azemhe Friday, All Progressives Grand Alliance – Osifo Isiah, All Progressives Congress – Senator Monday Okpebholo, People’s Democratic Party – Asue Ighodalo, Labour Party – Olumide Akpata, All People Movement – Ugiagbe Sylvester, All Peoples Party – Areleogbe Osalumese, Action Democratic Party – Kingson Akhime Afere, African Action Congress – Udoh David, Zenith Labour Party – Akhalamhe Amiemenoghena, Boot Party – Osirame Edeipo, Accord Party – Iyere Kennedy, African Democratic Congress – Osarenren Derek Izedonmwen, Peoples Redemption Party -Patience Key Ndidi, Young Progressive Party – Paul Okungbowa Ovbokhan and Social Democratic Party – Aner Abdullahi Aliu

However, about nine of the above-mentioned political parties unanimously endorsed and collapsed their structure into Edo APC ahead of the Edo 2024 election.

The election is taking place in eighteen (18) local government areas of the state.

Local government areas where the election is taking place are Koko-Edo, Egor, Esan Central, Esan North-East, Esan South-East, Esan West, Etsako Central, Etsako East, Etsako West, Igueben, Ikpoba-Okha, Oredo, Orhionmwon, Ovia North-East, Ovia South-West, Owan East, Owan West, Uhunmwonde local government area.

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