The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Yahaya Bello of winner of last Saturday’s governorship election in Kogi state.

The Returning Officer for the election and Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Prof Ibrahim Garba who announced the results awhile ago said Bello polled 406,222 votes to defeat his main challenger, Engr Musa Wada of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who got 189,704 votes.

Bello won majority votes in 12 of the 21 local government areas in the state, while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Candidate, Engr. Musa Wada won majority votes in 9 local government areas.

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