“It Was a Robbery, Tragically Validated by the Supreme Court” — Ighodalo on Edo Verdict

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Edo State, Asue Ighodalo, has described the Supreme Court’s judgment upholding the election of Governor Monday Okpebholo as a “tragic validation” of what he called a “coordinated robbery” of the people’s mandate.

In a personal statement issued Thursday in Abuja, Ighodalo said while he accepts the finality of the apex court’s verdict, he refuses to accept it as justice.

“What happened in the September 2024 Governorship Election was not a contest. It was a robbery. Coordinated. Deliberate. And now, tragically validated by the highest court in the land,” Ighodalo said.

The PDP candidate, who has long alleged that the election was rigged in favour of the All Progressives Congress (APC), lamented that the judgment confirmed his fears about the erosion of democratic institutions.

“Not just by those who rigged the process, but by the very institutions we trusted to protect our democracy,” he said.

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While urging Edo citizens not to despair, he declared: “We may not have won the office, but we won something greater. We found one another. We discovered our collective strength.”

To Governor Okpebholo, he issued a pointed warning: “Govern with conscience. History sees what the courts may not. And one day, it will deliver its own verdict.”