{"id":2527,"date":"2013-04-22T11:36:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T11:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigerian-newspapers\/edo-lg-polls-acn-wins-in-7-areas\/"},"modified":"2013-04-22T11:36:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T11:36:33","slug":"edo-lg-polls-acn-wins-in-7-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/edo-lg-polls-acn-wins-in-7-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Edo LG polls: ACN wins in 7 areas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Edo State Independent Electoral Commission (EDSIEC) on Sunday announced results of Saturday’s council polls in seven of the 14 local government areas, where the exercise took place.<\/p>\n

The commission had earlier cancelled the exercise in four local government areas of Oredo, Ikpoba-Okha, Esan West and Esan North-East due to logistic problems.<\/p>\n

It, however, said the exercise would hold in Esan West and Esan North-East on Wednesday, and on Thursday in Oredo and Ikpoba Okha local government areas.<\/p>\n

Announcing the results, The chairman of the commission, Chief Solomon Ogoh, said the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) won in all the seven local government areas.<\/p>\n

The areas are Orhionmwon, Egor, Akoko-Edo, Estako East, Estako-Central, Esan-South-East and Igueben<\/p>\n

In Orhionmwon, ACN won with 29,059 votes as against PDP’s 5,843 votes, while in Egor, ACN pulled 10,151 votes as against the PDP’s 1,951 votes.<\/p>\n

In Igueben local government area, ACN got 16,298 votes, while PDP scored 1,592 and in Estako East, ACN had 23,262 votes as against PDP’s 4,281 votes.<\/p>\n

Similarly, in Estako Central, ACN won with 9,293 votes and PDP got only 4,359 votes, while in Esan South-East, ACN scored 14,145 votes to defeat PDP, which got 2,776.<\/p>\n

In Akoko-Edo, ACN scored 41,496 votes to beat the rival PDP, which got 5,171 votes.<\/p>\n

The commission had earlier cleared six political parties, ACN, PDP, ANPP, CPC, LP and and AP to participate in the polls.<\/p>\n

However, The PDP and ANPP, on Sunday described the election as a “sham” and called for its cancellation.<\/p>\n

The ANPP Deputy National Chairman, Chief Solomon Edebiri, called for the immediate resignation of the chairman of the commission for incompetence.<\/p>\n

He also called on Gov. Adams Oshiomhole to redeem his name as the defender of democracy by sacking the chairman for “gross incompetence\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n

The chairman of PDP, Dan Orbih, also called for the cancellation of the exercise, saying the ruling ACN manipulated the commission in its favour.<\/p>\n

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