The just concluded Edo state governorship election is the first conclusive election INEC has conducted in 16 months since President Buhari took over.
Shortly after Buhari became President, Mahmood Yakubu was appointed as the chairman of INEC and the edo election where Godwin Obaseki, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was declared the winner, is a landmark for INEC in the present administration.
Since October when President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Yakubu, INEC has organised two governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states, and both of them were not concluded on first ballot.
In Kogi, INEC declared the election inconclusive, explaining that the margin between the two leading candidates was less than the number of the cancelled votes.
The commission gave the number of cancelled votes as 49,953 and the margin between Abubakar Audu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Idris Wada, the incumbent governor and candidate of the Peoples Democratic party (PDP), as 41,353.
In Bayelsa, INEC announced the cancellation of election in Southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa state, consequently rendering the governorship election inconclusive.
Baritor Kpaghir, the resident electoral commissioner, had cited violence and irregularities as the reason.
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