Yahaya Bello, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has been declared winner of the governorship election held in Kogi State on November 16th.
The INEC Returning Officer of the election, Ibrahim Garba, who announced the results in Lokoja today, said that Bello polled 406,222 votes to beat 24 other contestants, including Musa Wada of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP who got 189,704 votes.
The candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, came third by scoring 9,482 votes, Natasha Akpoti, while the African Democratic Party Justina Abanida scored 706 votes to come fourth while the candidate of PDF came fifth with 624 votes.
