The Acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Umar Damagum, at a press conference on Monday, said the party will explore all legal and democratic means to retrieve “the stolen mandate” of its candidate, Asue Ighodalo.
“The PDP charges the people of Edo State to remain resolute and undeterred as our Party takes sure and firm steps to retrieve the mandate with every means legal and available in a democracy,” Damagum said some hours after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the candidate of Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressives Congress (APC) the winner of the keenly contested election.
INEC said the APC candidate secured 291,667 votes, Ighodalo with 247,274 votes and Olumide Akpata of the Labour Party (LP) with 22,763 votes.
