Kogi elections are split into two: governorship election and Kogi West Senatorial rerun.
Result Announcement Postponed In Kogi
Announcement of Kogi governorship election results postponed till 8 am on Monday.
The returning officer says this is because results from the last two LGAs are not ready.
With the result from Dekina, the gap with which Yahaya Bello of the All Progressives Congress (APC) leads Musa Wada of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has narrowed to 176,803 votes from 184,430.
According to the Dekina collation officer, irregularities and violence were recorded in 32 polling units in the LGA.
This affected 29,141 voters.
Dekina LGA
APC: 8,948
PDP: 16,575
Governorship election result for Ankpa LGA
APC: 11,269
PDP: 28,108
SDP: 399
Valid votes: 40,331
Rejected votes: 1,014
Votes cast: 41,345
The collation of results has been suspended for an hour. The exercise will continue at 3:30pm.
INEC ad hoc official kidnapped
The Olamaboro LG collation officer reports that an INEC ad hoc official was kidnapped during voting and that there were incidents of violence in four registration areas; 6,877 votes were cancelled as a result of this.
Results from 15 LGAs have been collated so far, with six more to go.
Yagba West LGA
APC: 7,868
PDP: 8,850
SDP: 211
Valid votes: 17,063
Rejected votes: 399
Votes cast: 17,462
APGA collation officer says no election in Olamaboro LGA. “What happened is the abduction of electoral officers and snatching of ballot boxes. I don’t think what is here is good enough to be presented to INEC.”
The APC agent disagrees and says the party’s deputy governorship candidate “was in his polling unit.” “I take exemption from that. Never you mention any of my leaders,” he fires back.
Governorship result for Olamaboro LGA
APC: 16,876
PDP: 1,155
SDP: 262
Valid votes: 25,701
Rejected votes: 819
Votes cast: 26,520
The APC agent rejects the results announced: “No election in Idah. There was violence everywhere, so I am surprised they declared results in Idah here.
The collation officers reports two cases in Ichana registration area where there was over-voting and failure of card readers. He also says there was a case of violence in one of the PUs in Ogede ward. 1013 voters affected in all.
Governorship result from Idah LGA
APC: 4,602
PDP: 13,962
SDP: 221
Valid votes: 19,037
Rejected votes: 772
Votes cast: 19,809
Governorship election result for Ajaokuta LGA
APC: 17,952
PDP: 5,565
SDP: 323
Valid votes: 23,951
Rejected votes: 512
Votes cast: 24,463
The next result is from Ajaokuta LGA.
Ajaokuta has 73,836 registered voters but only 24,942 were accredited — same trend of low voter turnout as in most other LGAs in Kogi.
Governorship election result for Mopa-Moro LGA
APC: 4,953
PDP: 3,581
SDP: 95
The PDP agent at the collation rejected the result from Okehi. He said party agents were not allowed at polling units and that election did not take place there in the area.
Governorship election result for Okehi (SDP Gov Candidate, Natasha Akpoti’s LG)
APC: 36954
PDP: 478
SDP: 3095
Governorship election results for Yagba East LGA
APC: 6735
PDP: 7546
SDP: 220
Total valid votes – 14,631
Rejected votes – 339
Total votes cast – 14,970
Governorship election results for Kotor Karfi LGA
APC – 14,097
PDP – 9,404
SDP: 657
Total valid votes – 24,264
Rejected votes – 323
Total votes cast – 24,587
Governorship election results for Kabba-Bunu LGA
Kola Ologbondiyan, spokesman of the PDP, loses LG to the APC
APC: 15364
PDP: 8084
SDP: 364
Governorship election results, Okene (Yahaya Bello’s LGA)
APC: 112764
PDP: 139
SDP: 50
Registered voters: 131166
Accredited voters: 114001
Governorship election results, Igalamela-Odolu LGA
APC: 8075
PDP: 11195
SDP: 208
Registered voters: 65129
Accredited voters: 21428
The YPP agent said the PDP agent’s account is true that there was a low turnout of voters. The returning officer tells them to make a formal report.
Although the APC agent said the election in Adavi was peaceful, and that there was a massive turnout of voters.
The PDP agent at the collation rejected the results from Adavi, saying there was a low turnout of voters, and he asked INEC to reject the votes too.
Governorship election results, Adavi LGA
APC: 64657
PDP: 336
SDP: 279
Registered voters: 105906
Accredited voters: 66222
Total valid votes: 65595
Rejected votes: 372
Total votes cast: 65967
At 10 PUs in Kuroko II, results were cancelled because the total number of votes cast was more than the number of accredited voters.
Governorship election results, Omala LG
APC: 8473
PDP: 14403
SDP: 567
Registered voters: 66368
Accredited voters: 24474
Total valid votes: 23705
Rejected votes: 723
Total votes cast: 24428
Votes canceled at 5 PUs owing to violence, ballot-box snatching and threat to life.
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Governorship election results, Ijumu LGA
APC: 11425
PDP: 7587
SDP: 223
Registered voters: 59578
Accredited voters: 20139
Valid votes: 19435
Rejected votes: 446
Total votes cast: 19881
Governorship election results, Ogori/Magongo LGA
APC: 3679
PDP: 2145
SDP: 244
Registered voters: 16032
Accredited voters: 6239
Rejected votes: 146
Valid votes: 6088
Total number of votes cast: 6234
Adavi LGA, Ward 03, Iruvucheba
Registered voters: 87367
Accredited voters: 2635
Total valid votes: 2602
Rejected votes: 33
Total votes cast: 2635
APC: 2544
PDP: 49
SDP: 5
Adavi LGA, Ward 05, Adavi-Eba
Registered voters: 8604
Accredited voters: 3514
Total valid votes: 3448
Rejected votes: 32
Total votes cast: 3480
APC: 3369
PDP: 40
SDP: 31
Okene LGA, Orietesu, Ward 05
APC: 10225
PDP: 21
SDP: 4
No of PUs: 22
Registered voters: 11879
Accredited voters: 10290
Total valid votes: 10264
Rejected votes: 26
Total votes cast: 10290
Okene LGA, Onyukoko, Ward 03
APC: 13322
PDP: 1
SDP: 0
No of PUs: 30
Registered voters: 15084
Accredited voters: 13356
Total valid votes: 13338
Rejected votes: 18
Total votes cast: 13356
Okene LGA, Idoji, Ward 04
APC: 10748
PDP: 2
SDP: 6
No of PUs: 26
Registered voters: 12270
Total valid votes: 10967
Accredited voters 10969
Rejected votes: 032
Total votes cast: 10808
Okene LGA
APC: 112764
PDP: 139
SDP: 50
No of RAC centres – 11
Registered voters – 131166
Accredited voters -114001
Total valid votes – 113170
Rejected votes – 250
Total votes cast -113420
Okehi LGA
APC: 36954
PDP: 487
SDP: 3095
Kogi west senatorial district re-run election results
Kabba Bunu LGA
Registered voters – 74789
Accredited voters – 26,916
APC – 15,037
PDP – 8974
Valid votes – 24223
Rejected votes- 406
Total votes cast – 24629
Cancellation in six RAs: 24 PUs affected,
21,391 registered voters affected.
Kogi west senatorial district re-run election results
Koton Karfe LGA
Total registered voters – 53,580
Accredited voters – 25,809
APC – 14,168
PDP – 9,786
SDP – 196
Total valid votes – 24,246
Rejected votes -330
Total votes cast – 24,576
Cases of ballot-box snatching in two RAs and two PUs. 1,765 registered voters affected
Governorship election results, Ward 3, (Iyano) PU 001, Ibaji LGA
APC – 13
PDP – 118
SDP – 4
Governorship election results from Ibaji LGA, Ward 3, PU 005
APC – 20
PDP – 22
SDP – 4
Accredited voters: 52
Total number of votes: 49
Valid votes: 48
Invalid votes: 1
