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Kogi polls: Bello leads after announcement of results from 15 LGS

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Kogi election

Yahaya Bello, the incumbent governor, and the candidate of the All Progressives Congress candidate has won 10 local governments out of the 15 local governments declared so far by the Independent National Electoral Commission

According to INEC Bello had polled a total of 320,377 votes from the 15 local government results declared against his major challenger Musa Wada of People’s democratic party who polled a total of 101,470 votes.

The candidate of the Social Democratic Party Natasha Akpoti has polled a total of 7,019 votes to come third.

There are six local governments left to be announced when the electoral body returns from its break.

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