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INEC declares Kogi election inconclusive
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared Saturday’s governorship election in Kogi State inclusive.
INEC said it arrived at the verdict, after the number of cancelled votes outnumbered the number with which the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Abubakar Audu, led incumbent governor, Idris Wada, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
INEC is to announce the date for supplementary elections later, which according to the electoral act, should be held within a week of declaration of the inconclusive results.
Read also: #Kogi Decides: Early results favour Audu
The APC garnered 52.39% of total votes cast, PDP, 43.13%, whicl the other political parties put together garnered 4.48% of votes cast in the state.
Below is the final results as announced by the INEC:
ACCORD – 199
AA – 120
ACD – 472
AD – 163
AEC – 678
APA – 1938
APC – 240,867
APGA – 584
CPP – 587
DPC – 456
DPP – 457
ID – 174
KOWA – 134
LP – 8756
NCP – 346
NNPP – 282
PDC – 861
PDP – 199,514
PPA – 2973
PPM – 231
SDP – 86
UDP – 105
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