Kogi Guber: Gov Bello emerges APC flag bearer
The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Committee on Kogi governorship primary election, Governor Mahammudu Badaru on Thursday declared Governor Yahaya Bello winner of the party’s gubernatorial primaries in the state.
Announcing the result, the chairman of the election to Kogi State, Governor Badaru of Jigawa State, disclosed that Governor Yahaya Bello polled 3,091 votes to beat Barrister Babatunde Irukera with a wide margin of 2,982 votes who polled 109 votes to come second in the election.
Hassan Bawai who is currently a serving House of Representatives member, representing Bassa/Dekina at the lower chamber came a distant third with 44 votes in the race.
“This is to certify that Yahaya Bello having won the highest votes of 3,09 in the contest, I, Mahammudu Badaru, the chairman committee of Kogi APC Governorship primary election with the power conferred on me and my members by the National Secretariat declares Bello winner of the election,” Badaru said.
About 3,596 delegates from the 21 local government areas of the state were accredited to cast their votes for Governor Bello including 9 other aspirants who participated in the exercise seeking the party’s ticket in the forthcoming election.
This win would afford Governor Yahaya Bello who is currently the sitting governor of the state the opportunity to run for a second term in office under the platform of APC in the November 16 governorship election.
Analysis of Delegate Categorisation for the primaries are as follows:
Statutory Delegates: 126
APC State Executive: 37
LGA Executives: 567
Ward Delegates: 3,107
Number Accredited: 3,596
Result:
- Yahaya Bello: 3,091 votes
- Sani Lulu Abdullahi : 7 votes
- Hassan Abdullahi: 44 votes.
- Engr Bashir Abubakar: 3 votes.
- Barrister Babatunde Irukera: 109 votes.
- Others are;
- Yahaya Oyidi Audu: 10 votes.
- Iyoma Hadiza: 0 vote.
- Danlami: 0 vote.
- Yakubu Mohammed: 0 vote.
- Blessing Ekele: 0 vote.
Number of invalid votes was 54.
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