From Joseph Amedu, Lokoja
The Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, who is also the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Saturday governorship election, is leading with a very wide margin in the results announce so far.
Governor Bello is ahead of the other 23 candidates with over 200, 000 votes margin in 15 out of the 21 local government areas where results have been officially announced.
Bello got a total of 333,212 votes, followed by Musa Wada of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who comes a distant second with 101,469 votes.
The APC candidate’s highest win so far is in Okene local government the council area of the incumbent Governor, with a total of 112,764 votes as against Wada’s 139 votes.
The Governor also floored the PDP candidate in the Kabba/Bunu, the LGA of Kola Ologbondiyan, the party’s spokesman.
APC pulled 15,364 votes in Kabba Bunu which almost double that of Wada who polled 8,084 votes.
So far six LGAs still remain unannounced out of the 21 in the state.
The collation officers are reporting that thousands of votes were cancelled as a result of violence in some polling units.
Meanwhile, the Governorship candidate of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Engr. Musa Wada and his running mate has rejected the result of the election.
Addressing newsmen in Lokoja on Sunday, he said results were being written to favoured the All Progressives Congress (APC).
He posited that the deputy governor of the state, Chief Edward Onoja with security agencies were moving freely and visiting collation centers where he change results to favour his party.
He also lamented that APC rigged the election with the result of Kogi Central, adding that he and his party PDP will challenge the result in court.
He said: “The result is not true reflection of what happened. The people of the state voted for PDP but APC changed the result to favour them. The results declared so far by INEC is a written result and we can’t accept that. Every single result was changed and we are going to challenge the election. The election is not true reflection of what happened in the field. “I am the candidate of the party and I don’t have to wait till they kill me. I have to cry out to the people of Nigeria to know that APC rigged the election.
UPDATES FROM 14 LG’s AS ANNOUNCED AT THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
OKENE LGA FINAL APC: 112,764 PDP: 139
ADAVI LGA FINAL APC: 64,657 PDP: 366
YAGBA/W LGA FINAL APC: 7,868 PDP: 8,860
KABBA BUNU LG FINAL APC: 15,364 PDP: 8,084 IDAH LG FINAL PDP 13,962 APC 4,062
KORTO LG FINAL APC 14, 097 PDP 9, 404 Senate APC; 14,168 PDP; 9,786 IJUMU LG
FINAL Governor Apc 11,425 PDP 7,586
Senate APC 11,627 PDP 7,647 OLAMABORO LOCAL GOVT FINAL APC: 16,155 PDP: 8,155
Okehi LGA FINAL. APC 36,954 PDP 478 SDP 3, 095
Mopamuro FINAL Governor APC. 4,953 PDP 3,581 Senate APC. 4,874 PDP 3,704 YAGBA
EAST LGA FINAL Governor APC ; 6,735 PDP; 7,546 Senate APC; 6,633 PDP; 7,745
BASSA FINAL APC 10,876 PDP 10, 210
AJAOKUTA FINAL APC-17,952 PDP-5, 565
OGORI MAGONGO LG FINAL APC -3,678 PDP-2,145 SDP- 244
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