Four months after its inaugural sitting, the Edo State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal has scheduled Wednesday, April 2, 2025, to deliver its judgment on the September 21, 2024 election.
The Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) had on September 22, 2024, declared Senator Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the election with 291,667 votes to defeat his closest rival, Asue Ighodalo of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), who polled 247,274 votes, and Labour Party’s Olumide Akpata, who scored 22,763 votes.
The main opposition PDP challenged the victory of Governor Okpebholo in the election, at the three-member tribunal, headed by Justice Wilfred Kpochi.
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Citing over-voting, lack of ballot serialization, errors in collation, and miscalculations in results against INEC, the PDP and its candidate, filed a petition, seeking to overturn the result and declare Ighodalo winner.
The three-member tribunal, headed by Justice Wilfred Kpochi, had, on March 3, reserved judgment in the petition after parties adopted their final written addresses.
In the words of Justice Kpochi: A date for judgment will be communicated to the parties by the Secretary of the tribunal. The tribunal stands adjourned until then,”
The secretary of the tribunal having communicated to the different parties in the suit is, however, a judgment day for Governor Mobs Okpebholo of the APC and Barrister Asuen Ighodalo of the PDP.
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