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kogi Guber: Governor Bello Leads with over 200, 000 votes margin <\/strong><\/div>\n
… As Wada Sets to\u00a0 Challege Result in Court<\/strong><\/div>\n
Zainab Tanimu<\/strong><\/div>\n
Kaduna, North-West, Nigeria<\/strong><\/div>\n
The Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, who is also the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last Saturday governorship election, is leading with a very wide margin in the results announce so far. <\/strong><\/div>\n
Governor Bello is ahead of the other 23 candidates with over 200, 000 votes margin in 15 out of the 21 local government areas where results have been officially announced. <\/strong><\/div>\n
Bello got a total of 333,212 votes, followed by Musa Wada of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who comes a distant second with 101,469 votes.<\/strong><\/div>\n
The APC candidate\u2019s highest win so far is in Okene local government, the council area of the incumbent Governor, with a total of 112,764 votes as against Wada\u2019s 139 votes. The Governor also floored the PDP candidate in the Kabba\/Bunu, the LGA of Kola Ologbondiyan, the party\u2019s spokesman. APC pulled 15,364 votes in Kabba Bunu which almost double that of Wada who polled 8,084 votes. <\/strong><\/div>\n
So far six LGAs still remain unannounced out of the 21 in the state. <\/strong><\/div>\n
The collation officers are reporting that thousands of votes were cancelled as a result of violence in some polling units. Meanwhile, the Governorship candidate of People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) Engr. Musa Wada and his running mate has rejected the result of the election.\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n
Addressing newsmen in Lokoja on Sunday, he said results were being written to favour the All Progressives Congress (APC). <\/strong><\/div>\n
He posited that the deputy governor of the state, Chief Edward Onoja with security agencies were moving freely and visiting collation centers where he changed results to favour his party. <\/strong><\/div>\n
He also lamented that APC rigged the election with the result of Kogi Central adding that he and his party PDP will challenge the result in court. <\/strong><\/div>\n
\u201cThe result is not true reflection of what happened. The people of the state voted for PDP but APC changed the result to favour them.<\/strong><\/div>\n
\u201cResults decleard so far by INEC is a written result and we can\u2019t accept that. Every single result was changed and we are going to challenge the election. <\/strong><\/div>\n

“The election is not true reflection of what happened in the field. \u201cI am the candidate of the party and I don\u2019t have to wait till they kill me I have to cry out to the people of Nigeria to know that APC rigged the election.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source:Kogi Flame<\/strong><\/div>\n
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