BREAKING NEWS, Politics
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THE Independent National Electoral Commission has declared Yahaya Bello, candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the winner of the Kogi governorship poll, following the result of supplementary election held on Saturday, December 5.
The APC polled 247,752 votes to defeat Idris Wada, incumbent governor and candidate the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who came a strong second with 204,877 votes.
In the day’s supplementary poll, the APC polled 6885 votes to beat the PDP which polled 5363 votes. The supplementary poll took place in 18 of the 21 Local Government Areas in the state.
Declaring the results in Lokoja, capital of Kogi State, Emmanuel Kucha, chief returning officer for the election, who is also the vice-chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, said having fulfilled all legal requirements, Bello was declared winner of the election and Kogi governor-elect.
Immediately the results were announced, the streets of Lokoja, Kotonkarfe and Okene erupted in jubilation as people poured into the streets in hundreds to celebrate the victory.
Bello thanked the people of the state for voting for the party, and said the victory belonged to all Kogites. While asking everybody to rally round him to translate the victory to a success, he said his immediate task was to reconcile all the factions in the state.
— Dec 7, 2015 @ 13:10 GMT
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