Dino Melaye, a senatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, has won the highest votes in Mopamuro Local Government Area, Kogi West Senatorial District.
Melaye is seeking reelection for a second term into the red chamber of the National Assembly, with his toughest rival, Smart Adeyemi of the All Progressives Congress.
Ibrahim Ismaila, the INEC Collation Officer of Mopamuro LGA, announced the interim results at the collation centre at the INEC LG office in Mopa at about 3:20am on Sunday.
According to Ismaila, Melaye scored 5,112 votes, while Adeyemi got 3,658 votes.
ADC had 784 and SDP 26 votes out of the 9,717 valid votes cast.
There were 336 rejected votes, making total votes cast to be 10,055.
In the House of Representatives, the PDP also beat APC with 3,703 votes.
The APC got 3,157 votes and ADC 2,609 votes.
A total of 10,042 votes were cast, while 9,704 votes were valid while 338 votes were rejected.
In the presidential election, the PDP scored 5,336 votes to the APC’s 3646.
Ismaila added that out of 10,055 votes cast in the election, 336 were rejected while 9,507 were accepted as valid.
NAN reports that the collation of final results would be done at Yagba Federal Constituency Headquarters in Isanlu in Yagba East LGA.
NAN.