{"id":260643,"date":"2020-09-20T15:29:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T14:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=260643"},"modified":"2020-09-20T15:29:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T14:29:32","slug":"how-obaseki-defeated-izy-iyamu-in-edo-governorship-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=260643","title":{"rendered":"How Obaseki defeated Izy-Iyamu in Edo governorship election"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Nwafor Sunday<\/h2>\n

The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Godwin Obaseki defeated his closet opponent Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in 13 local governments.<\/p>\n

Ize-Iyamu won in five local governments with a total of 223,619 votes, while Obaseki polled 307,955 to defeat all the contenders.<\/p>\n

He defeated Ize-Iyamu with about 84,336 votes.<\/p>\n

Why Obaseki was victorious in Edo Guber election<\/strong><\/p>\n

Obaseki had in a final campaign rally in Benin City, said that with the support of Edo people and the endorsements by over 100 groups in the state, he was certain of victory.<\/p>\n

Below are the results as announced by INEC<\/p>\n

AKOKO EDO<\/strong><\/p>\n

APC \u2013 22,963<\/p>\n

PDP \u2013 20,101<\/p>\n

EGOR<\/strong><\/p>\n

APC- 10,202<\/p>\n

PDP \u2013 27,621<\/p>\n

ESAN CENTRAL<\/strong><\/p>\n

APC \u2013 6,719<\/p>\n

PDP \u2013 10,794<\/p>\n

ESAN NORTH EAST<\/strong><\/p>\n

APC \u2013 6,556<\/p>\n

PDP \u2013 13,579<\/p>\n

ESAN SOUTH EAST<\/strong><\/p>\n

APC \u2013 9,237<\/p>\n

PDP \u2013 10,563<\/p>\n

ESAN WEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

APC \u2013 7,189<\/p>\n

PDP \u2013 17,434<\/p>\n

ETSAKO CENTRAL<\/strong><\/p>\n

APC \u2013 8,359<\/p>\n

PDP \u2013 7,478<\/p>\n

ETSAKO EAST<\/strong><\/p>\n

APC \u2013 17,011<\/p>\n

PDP \u2013 10,668<\/p>\n

ETSAKO WEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

APC \u2013 26,140<\/p>\n

PDP \u2013 17,959<\/p>\n

IGUEBEN<\/strong><\/p>\n

APC \u2013 5,199<\/p>\n

PDP \u2013 7,870<\/p>\n

IKPOBA OKHA<\/strong><\/p>\n

APC \u2013 18,218<\/p>\n

PDP \u2013 41,030<\/p>\n

OREDO<\/strong><\/p>\n

APC \u2013 18,365<\/p>\n

PDP \u2013 43,498<\/p>\n

ORHIONMWON<\/strong><\/p>\n

APC \u2013 10,458<\/p>\n

PDP \u2013 13,445<\/p>\n

OVIA NORTH EAST<\/strong><\/p>\n

APC \u2013 9,907<\/p>\n

PDP \u2013 16,987<\/p>\n

OVIA SOUTH WEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

APC \u2013 10,636<\/p>\n

PDP \u2013 12,659<\/p>\n

OWAN EAST<\/strong><\/p>\n

APC \u2013 19,295<\/p>\n

PDP \u2013 14,762<\/p>\n

OWAN WEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

APC \u2013 11,193<\/p>\n

PDP \u2013 11,485<\/p>\n

UHUNMWODE<\/strong><\/p>\n

APC \u2013 5,972<\/p>\n

PDP \u2013 10,022<\/p>\n

Vanguard<\/a><\/p>\n

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Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State. By Nwafor Sunday The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Godwin Obaseki defeated his closet opponent Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in 13 local governments. Ize-Iyamu won in five local governments with a total of 223,619 votes, while Obaseki polled 307,955 to defeat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[29,530,7001,14904],"class_list":["post-260643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-apc","tag-edo","tag-obaseki","tag-osagie-ize-iyamu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/260644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}