Dennis Idahosa, a governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Edo State, has described the end result of Thursday's main as fictitious.
Senator Okpebholo was declared the winner of the election on Monday.
The Governor of Cross River State, Senator Bassey Otu, who chaired the Edo APC contemporary ballot, made the assertion after gathering the outcomes of the returning officers of the 18 native authorities areas that carried out the ballot within the 192 wards of carried out by the state.
Okpebholo polled 12,433 votes to defeat Idahosa, a consultant of Ovia constituency within the Home of Representatives, who scored 6,541 votes.
The previous chairman of the primaries Electoral Fee, Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State, had declared Idahosa the winner, whereas the returning officer, Stanley Ugboaja, on Monday declared Okpebholo the winner.
Additionally, Ojo Babatunde, who claimed to symbolize the returning officers throughout the native authorities, declared Anamero Dekeri the winner of the election.
This led to the social gathering's Nationwide Working Committee ordering new elections on Thursday.
In a put up on his official Fb web page, Idahosa expressed appreciation to his supporters for sustaining peace regardless of provocations.
He stated: “My esteemed supporters and social gathering devoted, let me to begin with admire all social gathering devoted in Edo State on your large and unwavering help for my ambition as governor to turn into the flag bearer of our social gathering within the 2024 Edo governorship election. .
“I’ll by no means take this present of affection and belief as a right sooner or later.
“The announcement of the fictional main election outcomes by Senator Bassey Otu’s committee represents the best stage of rape of democracy ever witnessed in Edo State.
“The occasions of the previous couple of days might have been very disappointing and demoralizing for many individuals, as your votes didn’t seem to have been counted primarily based on the method and announcement of the fictional main election outcomes of what occurred on the bottom on February twenty second. maintain elections within the 192 wards of the state.
“Let me guarantee all of you, our cooperating supporters, that I’ll discover all inner mechanisms of the social gathering to resolve the problems, and search justice and the place that doesn’t work, I’ll talk with all of you on our subsequent line of motion.
“Please proceed to take care of peace regardless of the provocation,” he added.
In the meantime, Anamero Dekeri was the primary candidate to reject the first election outcomes on Friday
Dekeri, a member of the Home of Representatives and consultant of the Etsako federal constituency, scored 2,566 votes within the shadow elections.
Shortly after Otu declared Okpebholo the winner, Dekeri rejected the outcomes and vowed to problem them on the appeals panel.
He alleged that the conduct of the primaries was not clear and was in favor of Okpebholo.
