By Jane Uyi Orobosa
As far as many people are concerned, the declaration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Monday Okpebholo, as the winner of the Edo State gubernatorial contest on Sunday, September 22, was simply a fait accompli and not the outcome of an election. For them, it was long predetermined. All that happened was working from the answer to the question by shameless national institutions. An unmitigated travesty of electoral contest.
It is an open secret that before the election, an alleged viral video of Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, while canvassing votes from would be delegates in the 2023 presidential election, allegedly vowing to hand over Edo State to APC as a sitting President, was repeatedly circulated. It was ostensibly to remind Tinubu, the institutions involved and the general public that there was an ‘existing pact’, or so it seems, to deliver Edo State to APC by hook or crook.
