Yahaya Bello, the substitute governorship
candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC),
has formally been declared the winner of the Kogi
state governorship election.

In the supplementary poll on Saturday, Bello
won 6,885 votes to take APC’s unassailable lead
to 247,742, while the incumbent governor, Idris
Wada, got 5,363 votes, taking PDP’s total to
204,877.

Bello was nominated by the APC to replace
Abubakar Audu, candidate of the party in the
November 21 election who died as results were
being collated on November 22. Audu had polled
240,861, putting the APC in the lead, while Wada
secured 199,514 votes. But the election was
declared inconclusive because the margin of votes
(41,353) between the two leading candidates was
less than the number of cancelled votes (49,953)
which could theoretically affect the final outcome.
The supplementary election results showed that
Bello won in 11 local government areas (LGAs) out
of 19 in the state while Wada won in seven LGAs
only.

Source: 9jalingo.com
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