After election results from the 21 local government areas were collated on Sunday, the All Progressives Congress’ candidate, Abubakar Audu, was leading while the incumbent Governor, Captain Idris Wada of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) trailed by a margin less than the number of cancelled votes.
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Abubakar Audu had 240,867 votes while that of the PDP, incumbent Governor Idris Wada got 199,514 votes.
The commission said 49,953 votes were canceled, which was higher than the margin between the leading candidate and the runner-up. Hence, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the Kogi State governorship election inconclusive.
Supplementary election in Kogi State will hold on December 5, 2015.
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