{"id":219819,"date":"2024-09-22T20:48:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T20:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/09\/22\/gov-obaseki-suffers-heavy-defeats-at-own-lga-to-apc\/"},"modified":"2024-09-22T20:48:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T20:48:25","slug":"gov-obaseki-suffers-heavy-defeats-at-own-lga-to-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/09\/22\/gov-obaseki-suffers-heavy-defeats-at-own-lga-to-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov Obaseki Suffers Heavy Defeats At Own LGA To APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The outgoing Governor of Edo state, Godwin Obaseki, has lost his local government, Oredo, to All Progressives Congress, in the governorship election held on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>INFORMATION NIGERIA reports that the result declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission, showed that Senator Monday Okpebholo, candidate of the APC, polled a total of 30,780 votes in the LGA.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that Obaseki\u2019s anointed candidate, Asue Ighodalo of the Peoples Democratic Party, secured 24,938 votes.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0#Edo Election: Security Agents Force Gov Obaseki Out Of INEC Office<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Olumide Akpata of Labour Party garnered 5,389 votes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Below are the results announced at the State Collation Centre in Benin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Registered Voters -356242<\/p>\n<p>Accredited voters -64802<\/p>\n<p>Total Votes cast \u2013 64042<\/p>\n<p>APC \u2013 30780<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LP \u2013 5389<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-advadstrackid=\"941128\" data-advadstrackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-135420699\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/FirstBank-Giant-Strides300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The outgoing Governor of Edo state, Godwin Obaseki, has lost his local government, Oredo, to All Progressives Congress, in the governorship election held on Saturday. 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