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INEC declares Yahaya Bello winner of Kogi Governorship election

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in the Kogi election, Yahaya Bello, has been declared as the winner of the exercise on held on Saturday.

The Independent National Electoral Commission Returning Officer for the election, Professor Ibrahim Umar, said that Bello polled a massive 406,222 votes to defeat his contestant, Musa Wada of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who scored 189,704 votes to emerge second.

Professor Umar said Bello had been declared winner, having scored the highest number of votes during the poll conducted on Saturday.

The INEC official said the total number of cancelled is 149,576 and that the margin of lead is 216,518.

Details to come shortly…

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