The Peoples Democratic Party on Monday said that it would challenge the results 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 PDP counterpart, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, polled 253,173 votes to come second.
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 PDP counterpart, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, polled 253,173 votes to come second.
The Peoples Democratic Party had rejected the result, which it described as a fraud, and accused INEC of alleged complicity.
The party also called for the dissolution of the present leadership of the INEC.
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