Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi state, has clinched the the All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket for the November 16 governorship election after securing the total votes of 3,127

A total of 3,596 delegates were accredited in the primary which held in Lokoja, the state capital.

The aspirants who contested against Bello are Hadiza Ibrahim, Yahaya Audu, Danlami Mohammed, Yakubu Mohammed, Sani Abdullahi and Babatunde Irukera.

The primary committee set up by the national working committee (NWC) of the ruling party had disqualified some aspirants.

Bello, who was not APC candidate in 2015, became governor after Abubakar Audu, who defeated Bello in the primary election, died while collation of results was ongoing.

The leadership of the APC later picked Bello as the party’s candidate in the supplementary election.

He had defeated Idris Wada, then the incumbent governor who contested under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).