Edo Decides: Ize-Iyamu wife’s, Oyegun lose polling unit to Obaseki

The wife of the All Progressive Congress in the ongoing Edo state governorship election Professor Mrs Idia Ize-Iyamu failed to deliver her polling unit for her husband.

Prof. Ize-Iyamu voted at the Staff Training School Ward 2 PU 2 G.R.A Benin city.

A total of 154 persons were accredited to vote.

At the end of the election, the Independent National Electoral Commission adhoc staff who conducted the election counted the votes and the results were as follows.

Oredo ward 2 PU 2

154 accredited voters

Void votes: 3

APC: 40

PDP: 109

Interestingly, she shared the same unit with the current Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in the state Professor Yinka Omoregie.

Godwin Obaseki, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)  secured the highest number of votes cast at polling unit 02, ward 002, Oredo local government area.

John Odigie Oyegun, former national chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), voted at this polling unit.

In the result as released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Obaseki polled 109 votes to defeat Osagie Ize-Iyamu, candidate of the APC, who garnered 40 votes.

Oyegun had refused to endorse Ize-Iyamu in the buildup to the election, asking the people to vote their conscience.

“I stand with the people of Edo State and urge them to to come out massively to exercise their democratic rights.

“They should vote for good governance, common decency, principled leadership, especially in the political arena and the protection of their democratic rights,” he had said in a statement.

“They should by their votes make clear that it is their right to choose their governor and nobody else’s. There is no room for fence sitters.”

Meanwhile, Governor Godwin Obaseki of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won his polling unit in Oredo Ward 4, Unit 19.

Obaseki polled 184 votes while Osagie Ize-Iyamu of All Progressives Congress (APC) secured 62 votes at the unit.

In Unit 21, PDP got 53 votes while the APC polled 33 votes.

Obaseki’s PDP polled 70 votes but Ize-Iyamu’s APC got 65 votes. In Unit 23, it was PDP 101, APC 32.

In Unit 24 of the same Oredo Ward 4, PDP won with 94 votes, while the APC got 50 votes.

In Unit 25, the PDP got 33 votes ahead of the APC that had 22 votes.

Result from the ward, Unit 26 indicates that APC scored 40 votes while the PDP got 98 votes.

In Unit 7, it is the PDP, 93 votes, APC 28 votes, while in Unit 28, it is PDP, 77 votes and APC, 39 votes.

Voting ended in most of the areas at 2.30 pm.

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