The candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Smart Adeyemi, has sent Senator Dino Melaye out of the Nigerian Senate.
YaahooJournalist reports that the APC candidate achieved this feat by winning the Kogi west rerun election.
This online news platform understands that Adeyemi was declared the winner of the Kogi west senatorial election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The returning officer of the election, Olayinde Lawal, declared Adeyemi winner of the election at the end of the rerun on Saturday, November 30.
According to the INEC returning officer, Adeyemi polled 88,373 votes to defeat his closest challenger and candidate of the PDP, Dino Melaye who got 62,133 votes.
On the other hand, Ambassador Rufus Aiyenigba of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) came third in the poll with 659 votes and was trailed by John Olabode and Adeyemi Taiwo of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and Nigeria Elements Progressive Party (NEPP who) garnered 262 and 119 votes respectively.
