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Edo election: Obaseki, Ize-Iyamu win polling units

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Edo election: Obaseki, Ize-Iyamu win polling units

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Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, of the Peoples Democratic Party has won his polling unit in Oredo Ward 4, Unit 19 in the governorship election.

Similarly, his main opponent in today’s governorship poll, APC’s Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, won his polling unit at Ward 5, Iguododo community in Orhionwon Local Government Area.

Obaseki polled 184 votes in his ward to beat Osagie Ize-Iyamu, who got 62 votes.

Ize-Iyamu, in his own ward, polled 292 votes while Godwin Obaseki of the Peoples Democratic Party got only 21 votes.

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

Obaseki’s PDP polled 70 votes ahead of Ize-Iyamu’s APC that garnered 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.

Still in the ward, but 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.