Melaye defeats Adeyemi in Mopamuro LGA, Kogi

Dino Melaye

Senator Dino Melaye of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won the highest votes in Mopamuro Local Government Area, Kogi West senatorial zone.

Mr Melaye defeated his closest challenger, Smart Adeyemi of the All Progressives Congress (APC) by 5112 to 3658 votes.

INEC collation officer of Mopamuro LGA, Ibrahim Ismaila, announced the interim results at the collation centre in INEC LG office in Mopa at 3: 20 a.m. on Sunday.

Mr Ismaila also said the ADC got 784 votes and SDP scored 26 votes out of the 9717 valid votes cast.

There were 336 rejected votes, making total votes cast to be 10,055.

In the House of Representatives, the PDP also beat APC with 3703 votes.

The APC got 3157 votes and ADC 2609 votes.

A total of 10042 votes were cast while 9704 votes were valid while 338 votes were rejected.

In the presidential election, the PDP scored 5336 votes to the APC’s 3646.

He added that out of 10055 votes cast in the election, 336 were rejected while 9507 were accepted as valid.