Yahaya secures second term bid in Kogi as Wada rejects outcome

Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared Bello Yahaya of the APC as the winner of the Kogi state governorship election.

INEC announced that the APC candidate polled the highest number of votes to secure another 4-year tenure.

Yahaya Bello had 406,222 votes to beat his closest rival, Musa Wada of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP with .

Meanwhile, The Kogi State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr Musa Wada, has rejected the result of the governorship election being announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Speaking during a media briefing in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, Wada said the results that had been announced were fictitious.

He particularly said the result for Okene Local Government Area of 112,764 for the All Progressives Congress and 139 for PDP was fictitious.

He said he would go to the election petition tribunal as he claimed to have won the election.