INEC declares PDP winner of Kogi senate rerun election
Following its initial announcement that the Kogi-Central senatorial rerun election was inconclusive, the Independent National Electoral Commission, later on Monday, reversed its decision.
The electoral commission says the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Ahmed Ogembe, won the election.
INEC Returning Officer, Prof. Rotimi Ajayi, while speaking at Okene, the headquarters of the senatorial district, revealed that the presiding officers in charge of the areas that were initially cancelled, had copies of the results that were said to have been destroyed by hoodlums during the election.
Ajayi stated that INEC officials later used the copies with the presiding officers to compute the final results, leading to the emergence of Ogembe as the winner.
Ogembe polled 46,503 votes to beat the candidate of the Peoples Progressive Alliance, Senator Nurudeen Abatemi, who scored a total of 32,169 votes while the Social Democratic Party candidate, Dr. Wokili Moses, got 10,064 votes to come third.
Speaking with journalists at the INEC office in Okene, Ogembe said he’s aware of the basic needs of his constituency and would attend to them.
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