The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Usman Ododo, has been declared the winner of Saturday’s governorship election in the state with 446,237 votes.
Announcing the result late Sunday night, the state Returning Officer, Prof Johnson Urama, said Ododo was closely followed by the Social Democratic Party candidate, Muri Ajaka, who scored 259, 052 votes.
Dino Melaye of the PDP garnered 46,362 votes; Leke Bejide of the African Democratic Party, 21,891 and Adejo Okeme of the LP 567.
Meanwhile, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has slated Saturday, November 18 for the conduct of fresh elections in about 59 polling units where the exercise was earlier suspended in Kogi state.
With just about 15,000 votes in the outstanding polling units, the votes from them cannot affect the final outcome of the governorship election in the state.
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