25th February, 2019
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Monday declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Johnson Oghuma as the winner of Etsako Federal Constituency of Edo.
INEC returning officer, Dr Francis Ogbemudia of the University of Benin, who announced the result, said Oghuma polled 57,751 votes to defeat his closest rival, Blessing Agbomere of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who scored 36,904 votes.
Ogbemudia said that of the 265,895 registered voters, 98,808 cast their votes while 2,378 votes were voided.
Ogbemudia said, “I hereby declare Oghuma of APC, having satisfied the requirements of the law and scored the highest number of votes, as the winner and he is returned elected.”