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Dino Melaye defeated as Musa Wada emerges PDP gov candidate in Kogi

Wednesday, September 04, 2019 at 9:18 PM by Joseph Omotayo

- Musa Wada has clinched the PDP's governorship ticket for the November 16 election in Kogi state

- Wada scored 748 votes to emerge the winner, beating others like Dino Melaye who came fourth with 70 votes

- The immediate past governor of the state, Idris Wada, came second with 748 votes and Abubakar Mohammed Ibrahim scored 710 votes to come third

Engr Musa Wada has emerged as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flag bearer for the November 16 governorship election.

Musa, a younger brother of the immediate past governor, Idris Wada, who also contested for the ticket, scored 748 votes to clinch the party's ticket, The Nation reports.

Abubakar Mohammed Ibrahim, the son of a former governor, Ibrahim Idris (Ibro), tailed him as he polled 710 votes.

The immediate past governor of the state, Capt Wada, emerged third in the contest with 345 votes, while Senator Dino Melaye polled 70 votes to emerge fourth.

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Other contestants in the primary election and their scores are; Aminu Suleiman - 55 votes, Victor Adoji - 54, Erico Joseph - 42, AVM Saliu Atawodi (retd.) - 11, Emmanuel Omebije - 9 votes, Mohammed Shuaibi- 4 votes, Bayo Michael - 2 votes and Jabiru Haruna - 0.

Meanwhile, Legit.ng earlier reported that the PDP governorship primary election ended abruptly in the early hours of Wednesday, September 4, when gunmen invaded the venue of the election, Lokoja Confluence Stadium.

It was gathered that voting had ended and sorting of votes were going on when the gunmen came to the venue at about 1:45 am and started shooting from different directions.

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Votes in eight out of the 10 ballot boxes have already been counted and sorted out before the disruption by the gunmen.