Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has expressed his surprise on the result of Edo state Governorship Poll which took place on Saturday with INEC declaring the PDP winner on Sunday.
El-Rufai said he was optimistic up to three weeks ago that his party, the All Progressives Congress, would win the Edo State Governorship Election.
He said opinion polls conducted had shown that the APC candidate, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, would win the election, adding that he didn’t know what went wrong in the last three weeks of the campaign.
Close to the election, the National leader of APC, Bola Tinubu made a video, this got Edo people angry and resulted to a slogan “Edo No Be Lagos”.
“We (APC) would have loved to win and quite frankly, I was optimistic up to three weeks ago; the polls indicated that we were going to win. I don’t know what happened in the last three weeks of the campaign, El-Rufai says.
“As you know, a large number of voters make up their minds in the last two weeks of the election. Many voters decide no matter what happens, this is how I am voting but most people want to wait and make up their minds in the last two weeks.
“Three weeks ago, the polls clearly showed that APC was going to win but the result came out differently from what we expected.
“Obaseki has won, that’s it. You can’t go into an election without the possibility of losing.”
He added, “The election was reasonably decent. We were all worried about violence but there was very little violence or none at all.”
