Governor Oshiomhole in shock as Jonathan leads in seven Edo LGs

Governor Adams Oshiomhole was yesterday in shock as the collation of results of the presidential

election continues, the Peoples Democratic Party has won the poll in seven Local Government Areas in Edo State.

Edo has 18 LGs.

At the INEC office in Benin where the collation of results continued into the early hours of Monday, at Igueben the PDP led with about 6,854 votes while the All Peoples Congress followed with 5,692 votes.

In Esan Central,  PDP polled 12,003 votes while the APC polled 7,688 votes while in Etsako Central, PDP led with 10,365 votes while APC won 8,152 votes.

At Esan North East, PDP led with 19,440 votes while APC polled 6,151 votes. At Etsako East, the PDP polled 13,071 votes while the APC polled 9,788.

At Esan West, the PDP polled 19,600 votes while the APC polled 9,578 votes.

At Ikpobaokha, PDP polled 31,373 votes while the APC garnered 18,527 votes while at Owan East, the PDP polled 12,121 votes. The APC polled 12,925 votes.

Present at the collation were the agents of all the political parties, which took part in the election, as well as the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mike Igini, and State Collation Officer, Prof. Falade Orunwense. who is also the Vice Chancellor of the University of Benin,