Adams Oshiomhole - Winner of Edo polls

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of the Action Congress Party of Nigeria was this morning officially declared winner of the election held yesterday by the Independent National Electoral Commission.

He defeated Major General Charles Airhiavbere, of the Peoples Democratic Party by a very wide margin.According to the results declared today by the INEC, Oshiomhole polled 477,478 votes. The PDP candidate mustered a distant 144,235 votes.

The candidates of the ANPP got 3,642 votes, CPC2,793, LP 604, NCP 540 and NCND 807.
 The accredited voters were 667,993 out of a registered voters of 1.6 million.

Update: In what many are calling a massive landslide for his party, he won all 18 local government areas in Edo state