The All Progressives Congress (APC) has won the Edo state governorship election after the collation of results from all 18 LGAs.

Results from the remaining two LGAs which were suspended hours ago are now in at the collation centre of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Benin, the Edo capital.

Monday Okpebholo if the APC polled 291,667 votes to defeat the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Asue Ighodalo who scored 247,274 votes.

The collation started on Sunday morning after it failed to kick off after the election on Saturday.

Earlier, 244,549 votes were recorded by the winner when 16 councils were announced before collation was suspended for a break. At the time, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has 195,954 while the Labour Party (LP) has polled 13,348 votes.

The election featured 17 candidates — but Asue Ighodalo of the PDP, Monday Okpebholo of the APC and Olumide Akpata of the LP were the major contenders.