Dino Melaye and Smart Adeyemi
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Smart
Adeyemi, has won the Kogi West senatorial district election, defeating
his main rival, Senator Dino Melaye.
The Returning Officer of the election, Professor Olajide Lawal,
announced this on Saturday at the collation centre in Kogi State.
According to him, Senator Adeyemi polled a total of 88,373 votes to
beat Senator Dino Melaye of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who
scored 62,133 votes.
Ambassador Rufus Aiyenigba of the Social Democratic Party (SDP)
came third in the poll with 659 votes and was trailed by John Olabode
and Adeyemi Taiwo of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and Nigeria
Elements Progressive Party (NEPP who) garnered 262 and 119 votes
respectively.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the
APC candidate as the winner of the keenly contested election two weeks
after the people of the senatorial district went to the poll.
See the result below:
