The candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the Kogi West Senatorial District poll, Senator Smart Adeyemi, has defeated Senator Dino Melaye of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Saturday’s rerun election was held in 53 polling units across seven local government areas in the senatorial district.
According to the Returning Officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission for election, Prof. Olayinde Lawal, Adeyemi polled 88,373 to defeat Melaye, who scored 62,133 votes.
Ambassador Rufus Aiyenigba of the Social Democratic Party came third in the poll with 659 votes and was trailed by John Olabode and Adeyemi Taiwo of the African Democratic Congress and Nigeria Elements Progressive Party who garnered 262 and 119 votes respectively.
It should be recalled that the Kogi State Elections Tribunal had ordered a fresh poll, which held on November 16 alongside the state’s gubernatorial election.
The November 16 election was declared inconclusive by INEC on the grounds that the number of cancelled votes was higher than the margin between the PDP and APC candidates.
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