Kogi Rerun: Dino Melaye Loses, Adeyemi Returns to Senate

Kogi Rerun: Dino Melaye Loses, Adeyemi Returns to Senate

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Dino Melaye of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has lost his bid to retain his seat at the Senate, as Smart Adeyemi of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has been pronounced winner of the Kogi-West Senatorial District rerun election, of Saturday.

 

Adeyemi polled 88,373 votes, while Dino Melaye recorded 62,133 votes, according to the results announced by the Returning Officer, Olajide Lawal.

 

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had a week ago, declared the election inconclusive, because the margin between Adeyemi and Melaye was lower than the number of “registered voters in 53 polling units of the 20 registration areas in the zone, where elections were cancelled”.

 

After the initial election, both Candidates had respectively polled 80,118 and 59,548 votes.

 

The margin of 20,570 votes between the two Candidates was far less than the 43,127 registered voters in the 53 polling units where elections were cancelled. Hence, the rerun.

 

Melaye rejected the results at the time.
Adeyemi is returning to the Senate, about five years after he lost the seat to Melaye, at the 2015 elections.

Dino Melaye