{"id":131612,"date":"2024-09-21T21:47:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T20:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/edo-governorship-election-live-results-from-polling-units-trickle-in"},"modified":"2024-09-21T22:48:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T21:48:46","slug":"edo-governorship-election-live-results-from-polling-units-trickle-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/edo-governorship-election-live-results-from-polling-units-trickle-in","title":{"rendered":"Edo Governorship Election: Live results from polling units trickle in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, have started announcing results from polling units in the ongoing governorship election in Edo State.<\/p>\n<p>Voting has ended in most polling units and results are being counted and announced in the presence of party agents and voters.<\/p>\n<p>The leading contenders for Saturday\u2019s election include Asue Ighodalo of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressives Congress and Labour Party\u2019s Olumide Akpata.<\/p>\n<p>Follow this thread for results from Polling Units, PUs.<\/p>\n<p><b>Location: PU11, Ward 06, Oredo LGA<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Results<\/p>\n<p>PDP: 41<\/p>\n<p>APC: 19<\/p>\n<p>LP: 32<\/p>\n<p><b>Ward 3, Unit 21, Etsako West<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Results<\/p>\n<p>APC: 28<\/p>\n<p>PDP: 30<\/p>\n<p>LP: 11<\/p>\n<p>NNPP: 1<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, have started announcing results from polling units in the ongoing governorship election in Edo State. Voting has ended in most polling units and results are being counted and announced in the presence of party agents and voters. The leading contenders for Saturday\u2019s election include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":131611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,2660],"tags":[14813,254],"class_list":["post-131612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-to-homepage","tag-edo-governorship-election","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Edo Governorship Election: Live results from polling units trickle in - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, have started announcing results from polling units in ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/edo-governorship-election-live-results-from-polling-units-trickle-in\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Edo Governorship Election: Live results from polling units trickle in\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, have started announcing results from polling units in ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/edo-governorship-election-live-results-from-polling-units-trickle-in\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-09-21T20:47:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-09-21T21:48:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/sm_1726942709.26052.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/edo-governorship-election-live-results-from-polling-units-trickle-in#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/edo-governorship-election-live-results-from-polling-units-trickle-in\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Edo Governorship Election: Live results from polling units trickle in\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-09-21T20:47:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-09-21T21:48:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/edo-governorship-election-live-results-from-polling-units-trickle-in\"},\"wordCount\":123,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/edo-governorship-election-live-results-from-polling-units-trickle-in#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/sm_1726942709.26052.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Edo Governorship Election\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/edo-governorship-election-live-results-from-polling-units-trickle-in#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/edo-governorship-election-live-results-from-polling-units-trickle-in\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/edo-governorship-election-live-results-from-polling-units-trickle-in\",\"name\":\"Edo Governorship Election: Live results from polling units trickle in - 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