INEC Declares Kogi West Senatorial Rerun Inconclusive

The Kogi West senatorial rerun election between the All Progressives Congress candidate, Smart Adeyemi and that of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Dino Melaye has being declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

The INEC made this declaration on Sunday through its returning officer, Professor Olayinde Lawal.

The electoral body explained that the margin between the APC and PDP candidate is below the number of 43,127 registered voters in the 53 polling units which has about 20 registration areas in the zone where elections were cancelled.

Professor Lawal said in the seven Local Government Areas in the senatorial district, Adeyemi scored 80,118 votes while his counterpart, Melaye polled 59,548 with a difference of 20,570 votes.

See the result below:

Kabba/Bunu LGA
APC-15,037
PDP-8,974

Ijumu LGA
APC-11,627
PDP-7,647

Kogi/Koton Karfe LGA
APC-14,168
PDP-9,786

Mapo/Muro LGA
APC-4,874
PDP-3,704

Yagba East LGA
APC-6,683
PDP-7,745

Yagba West LGA
APC-7,941
PDP-8,980

Lokoja LGA
APC-19,788
PDP-12,712