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How Yahaya Bello Clinched Kogi Governorship

Yahaya Bello KogiThe candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Yahaya Bello was this morning, declared winner of the Kogi state governorship election which dovetailed into supplementary poll in 91 polling units yesterday.

Announcing the results of the supplementary election today, the Returning Officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Emmanuel Kucha said Bello who is the candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) polled 247,752 to defeat the candidate of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and incumbent governor, Captain Idris Wada, with 204,877 votes.
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.
Bello emerged the replacement of Prince Abubakar Audu as the candidate of the APC after his death on November 22.
Based on the outcome of the supplementary election of December 5, Bello scored 6,885 votes, while Wada 5,363.
The final results:
A 206
AA 120
ACD 480
AD 168
ADC 707
APA 1995
APC 247,752
APGA 1040
CPP 608
DPC 465
DPP469
ID 17
KOWA 136
HP 8761
NCP 531
NNPP 290
PPC 895
PDP 204,877
PPA 3,048
PPN 239
SDP 90
UDP 107.

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