PDP Wins Kogi East Senatorial Re-Run Election
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INEC has declared a former Chief of Air Staff, Isaac Alfa of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the winner of the Kogi East Senatorial re-run election.
He polled 57,575 votes to defeat five other candidates.
The INEC Returning Officer, Professor Lucky Ovwhasa, said candidates of ACPN, KOWA, MPPP, UPP and the Labour Party scored 1,793, 888, 498, 349 and 11,908 votes.
The All Progressives Congress, APC, did not participate in the election due to an Appeal Court judgment banning it from fielding a candidate.
The senatorial election was held in eight out of the nine local governments in Kogi East senatorial district.
Ovwhasa said the election was held in 236 of the 1,080 polling units in the senatorial district, while only 140,297 out of the 643,559 registered voters in the area participated in the election.
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