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| Governor Yahaya Bello, left, with his deputy, Chief Onoja. |
By Kola Adeyemi
Governor Yahaya Bello of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been declared winner of the governorship election held in Kogi State on Nov. 16.
Governor Yahaya Bello of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been declared winner of the governorship election held in Kogi State on Nov. 16.
The Returning Officer of the election, Prof. Ibrahim
Garba, who announed the results in Lokoja on Monday said that Bello polled
406,222 votes to beat 24 other contestants, including Mr Musa Wada of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who polled 189,704 votes.
Mrs Natasha Akpoti, the candidate of the
Social Democratic Party came third by scoring 9,482 votes, Mrs Justina Abanida
of the African Democratic Party scored 706 votes to come fourth while the
candidate of PDF came fifth with 624 votes.
Garba said that Bello having
scored the majority of votes and other constitutional requirements is declared
the winner.
He said that 636,202 out of
the 1,636,350 registered voters in the state were accredited for the election
out of which 624,514 evetually voted.
Garba gave total valid votes
cast durung the election as 610,744 , number of rejected votes was 13,770 while
cancelled votes were 149,576 votes.
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