Six political parties have filed petitions at the Edo State election tribunal challenging the declaration of Senator Monday Okpebholo, candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, winner of the September 21, 2024 governorship election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
DAILY POST reports that INEC had on September 22, 2024, declared the APC candidate winner of the election with 291,667 votes to defeat 17 other candidates, including his closet rival, Asue Ighodalo of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who scored 247,274 votes.
The parties that have petitioned the tribunal to challenge the conduct and outcome of the election are the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Social Democratic Party, SDP, Zenith Labour Party, ZLP, Action Democratic Party, ADP, Accord Party, AP, and the Allied Peoples Movement, APM.
The parties and candidates in their various petitions prayed for the nullification of the governorship election for noncompliance with the mandatory provisions of the Electoral Act.
The ADP in its petition opined that INEC which is the first respondent ought to have nullified the election and ordered a fresh one.
