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<\/p>\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has won the presidential election in Kogi State having polled overall votes of 285, 894 to defeat his main challenger, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar who polled 218,207 votes.<\/p>\n
The presidential results declared by the Kogi State Collation Officer, Prof Michael Adikwu of the University of Abuja, showed that Buhari won in 14 out of the 21 LGAs of the state while Atiku won in seven.<\/p>\n
Buhari led Atiku with a wide margin of 67,687 votes.
\nBreakdown of the result declared is as below:<\/p>\n
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Ankpa
\nAPC- 21,109
\nPDP-16,749<\/p>\n
Bassa
\nAPC- 7,377
\nPDP- 10,137<\/p>\n
Adavi
\nAPC-24,843
\nPDP-10,059<\/p>\n
Ajaokuta
\nAPC- 13,253
\nPDP- 10, 710<\/p>\n
Ijumu
\nAPC- 8,507
\nPDP- 12,423<\/p>\n
Kogi
\nAPC- 16, 588
\nPDP- 10,392<\/p>\n
Mopa-Muro
\nAPC- 3,646
\nPDP-5,336<\/p>\n
Ibaji
\nAPC- 13,545
\nPDP \u2013 10,307<\/p>\n
Ofu
\nAPC- 13,171
\nPDP- 10,374<\/p>\n
Lokoja
\nAPC- 24,983
\nPDP- 18,351<\/p>\n
Ogori-Magongo
\nAPC- 2,323
\nPDP- 1,956<\/p>\n
Okehi
\nAPC- 18,222
\nPDP- 11,965<\/p>\n
Okene
\nAPC- 37,617
\n7,839<\/p>\n
Olamaboro
\nAPC- 12,229
\nPDP- 11, 325<\/p>\n
Omala
\nAPC- 8,206
\nPDP- 11,815<\/p>\n
Kabba-Bunu
\nAPC- 9,131
\nPDP- 14,888<\/p>\n
Yagba East
\nAPC- 5,687
\nPDP- 8,841<\/p>\n
Yagba West
\nAPC- 7,175
\nPDP- 9,419<\/p>\n
Dekina
\nAPC- 21,392
\nPDP- 10, 455<\/p>\n
Idah
\nAPC-9,240
\nPDP- 8,784<\/p>\n
Igalamela
\nAPC- 7,650
\nPDP- 6,082<\/p>\n
In a related development, the Kogi East Senatorial Election has been declared Inconclusive.<\/p>\n
The returning officer, Prof Rotimi Ajayi of the Federal University Lokoja announced the result at the Senatorial collation Centre, Idah as follows; Jibrin Isah Echocho Of APC -113,772, Aidoko Ali Of PDP \u2013 69,131, Victor Adoji Of ADC \u2013 30,696.<\/p>\n
Prof Ajayi said elections were canceled in 129 polling units therefore, declared the election inconclusive.<\/p>\n
From the election declared so far in Kogi, PDP has won 1 senate and 1 Reps seat, APC won 2 senates and 7 Reps seats, while ADC won 1 rep seat.
\nEnd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has won the presidential election in Kogi State having polled overall votes of 285, 894 to defeat his main challenger, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar who polled 218,207 votes. The presidential results declared by the Kogi State Collation Officer, Prof Michael Adikwu of the University of Abuja, showed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15,28],"tags":[97,38,251,235,197],"class_list":["post-5352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","tag-buhari","tag-election","tag-inec","tag-president","tag-states"],"yoast_head":"\n