The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator
Smart Adeyemi, has won the Kogi West senatorial district
election.
The Returning Officer of the election, Professor Olajide Lawal,
announced this on Saturday at the collation centre in Kogi
State.
According to him, Senator Adeyemi polled a total of 88,373 votes
to beat Senator Dino Melaye of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
who scored 62,133 votes.
Ambassador Rufus Aiyenigba of the Social Democratic Party (SDP)
came third in the poll with 659 votes and was trailed by John
Olabode and Adeyemi Taiwo of the African Democratic Congress (ADC)
and Nigeria Elements Progressive Party (NEPP who) garnered 262 and
119 votes respectively.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared
the APC candidate as the winner of the keenly contested election
two weeks after the people of the senatorial district went to the
poll.
This came after the supplementary poll conducted by INEC
following the November 16 rerun election which failed to produce a
winner.
It was said to have been marred by violence and other alleged
electoral malpractices.
Although the results of the poll favoured Senator Adeyemi who
polled 80,118 votes as against Senator Melaye’s 59,548 votes, the
returning officer had said that he was constrained by law to
declare a winner.
He explained that the margin of 20,570 votes between the two
candidates was lower than the number of cancelled votes in 53
polling units of the 20 registration.
Following the victory of the APC candidate in the rerun poll and
upon receiving the certificate of return, Senator Adeyemi will
replace Senator Melaye as the lawmaker representing Kogi West
senatorial district in the National Assembly.
INEC’s decision to conduct a fresh election in the senatorial
district was in line with the order of the Court of Appeal in
Abuja, which dismissed an appeal filed by Senator Melaye
challenging the nullification of his victory on February 23. during
the general elections.
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