Yahaya BelloWins Kogi State Governorship Election

INEC has declared APC candidate Alh. Yahaya Bello as the winner of the Kogi Governorship poll.
APC polled 247,752 votes to defeat PDP who
came second with 204,877 votes. In the
supplementary poll, APC polled 6885 votes to beat PDP which polled

5363 votes.
Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of
Agriculture, Makurdi who is the Chief
Returning Officer for the election, Prof.
Emmanuel Kucha declared the results in Lokoja. He said, having fulfilled all legal requirements, Alh. Yahaya Bello is declared winner of the election and Kogi Governor-Elect.

Faleke remains the running mate to Alh.
Yahaya Bello. The supplementary poll took
place in 18 of the 21 Local Government Areas in the state.

Collation of the supplementary election results started late Saturday night, with the official of the electoral body giving a breakdown of results from the earlier election held on November 21.
After that election, the electoral body declared the election inconclusive and fixed a supplementary election for December 5.

After election results from the 21 local
government areas were collated on Sunday,
November 22, the candidate of the APC, late
Audu, was leading while the incumbent Governor, Captain Idris Wada of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) trailed by a margin less than the number of cancelled votes.
The candidate of the APC had 240,867 votes
while that of the PDP polled 199,514 votes.
But the election was declared inconclusive by the INEC, which said canceled 49,953 votes were higher than the margin between the leading candidate and the runner-up.
After the supplementary election of December 5, the APC’s candidate got additional 6,885 while the PDP candidate polled 5,363.

KogiDecides : Final results After Collation

A 206

AA 120

ACD 480

AD 168

ADC 707

APA 1995

APC 247,752

APGA 1040

CPP 608

DPC 465

DPP469

ID 179

KOWA 136

HP 8761

NCP 531

NNPP 290

PPC 895

PDP 204,877

PPA 3,048

PPN 239

SDP 90

UDP 107