PDP Senatorial Candidate Collapses And Lands In Hospital After Defeat

A candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,
for Edo State House of Assembly, who collapsed
on hearing of his defeat in last Saturday’s
election, is responding to treatment at the
University of Benin Teaching Hospital, UBTH.
This came as Edo State Police Command said it
arrested 21 persons for alleged ballot box
snatching and other electoral offences in the
March 28 and April 11 elections.
The hospitalized candidate (names withheld),
had contested for Edo South constituency seat.
He lost to the candidate of All Progressives
Congress, APC.
Vanguard gathered that the PDP candidate was
rushed to a private hospital before he was
transferred to UBTH.