Independent National Electoral Commission

Independent National Electoral Commission declared inconclusive in Kogi East Senatorial.  

The elections for Kogi East Senatorial District and Dekina/Bassa Federal Constituency have been declared inconclusive due to extensive violence, the INEC said on Monday 25^th Feb 2019.

The INEC Returning Officer for the senatorial election, Rotimi Ajayi,  who announced at the collation centre in Idah, said the elections did not hold in 129 polling units across the region.

Mr Ajayi said that some polling unit elections were cancelled as he announced that APC scored 113,772 votes; PDP: 69,131 and ADC, 30,696 votes.

According to Mr Rotimi Ajayi, a report from Bassa Local Government Area revealed that “a registration area with the name Mozum, which has 12 polling units refused to vote.”

Mr Ajayi said that a new date for the re-run of the polls would be announced after necessary arrangements were made.

On Saturday, the elections did not hold in four units in Anyigba, Dekina Local Government, as gun-wielding hoodlums invaded the polling units in Ajetachi, Etiaja, Abuja and CMML Primary School unit 005.

In Ajetachi a student of Kogi State University, Daniel Usman, on the queue to vote was gunned down by the hoodlums who operated from a Toyota Sienna bus as they invaded the polling unit.

In Igalamela-Odolu Local Government Area with 65,129 registered voters and 16,543 accredited, elections in four polling units were cancelled within Ofuloko which has 1,145 registered voters.

The local government also witnessed violent activities in Odolu town as suspected thugs, also in a Sienna bus, shot one Adebayo Adebunmi. They kidnapped Friday Sani, the member representing Igalamela-Odolu constituency at the state House of Assembly.