Breaking: Bello declared winner of Kogi governorship election
Adetokunbo Fakeye
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) early today (Sunday) declared Mr Yahaya Bello of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of Kogi governorship election.
Bello, according to the Returning officer for the governorship election, Prof. Emmanuel Kuvha scored 247, 762 votes to defeat the incumbent Governor, Idris Wada of the Peoples Democratic Party, who scored 204,877 votes.
Prof. Kuvha said the results were a merger of the election held on Nov. 21 and the supplementary poll conducted in 91 polling units on Dec. 5.
His statement: “The results of the supplementary election shows that the APC scored 6,885 votes, while PDP got 5,363 votes.
“Only 13,000 out of the 49,000 registered voters expected to vote in the supplementary election turned out for accreditation and voting”.
The returning officer explained that out of the 494,723 votes cast during the exercise, only 21,740 were invalidated.
Reacting to the result, the PDP agent at the collation centre, Capt. Joe Agada (rtd), said his party would challenge the results at the tribunal .
Mr Mumuni Okara, who is the APC agent at the collation centre, described the results as satisfactory, adding that the declared results tallied with what the party’s agents had obtained from the various polling units
