KOGI state Governor Yahaya Bello has won his polling unit for the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Usman Ododo.
Bello, who voted at polling unit 011, Agassa, Okene LGA, Kogi Central, got 840 votes to defeat other top parties in the race.
Muktar Ajaka of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and Dino Melaye of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) got zero votes at the polling unit.
The Governor, who will soon finish his tenure, boasted while casting his vote earlier that his party’s candidate, Ododo, would win at the governorship election held today, November 11, in the state.
The Governor, who has spent two terms as governor of the North-Central state, said he was confident of victory because of his work in the state.
He stated these after casting his vote at the Open Space polling unit, Asubo Ward in Agassa, Okene, Kogi Central.
The ICIR reported that the governorship candidate of the SDP, Ajaka, also won his polling unit at Grade 1 Area Court, Ajaka Ward 07 in Igalamela/Odolu LGA of the state.
He polled 111 votes against the APC’s five votes, while Melaye of PDP secured zero.
Similarly, the PDP governorship candidate for the Kogi election, Melaye, won the election in his polling unit in Iluafon Quarters under the state’s Aiyetoro 1 registration area of Ijumu LGA.
As announced by the Presiding Officer after the election, Melaye polled 210 votes against his opponents.
Ododo of the APC had 22 votes, while the African Democratic Party’s (ADC) candidate, Leke Abejide, polled seven votes.
INEC cleared 18 candidates for the governorship seat in the off-cycle election in Kogi State.
A reporter with the ICIR
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