Ex-Kogi Local Government Auditor General, Ahmed Usman Ododo has won the All Progressive Congress (APC) governorship ticket in Kogi after a keenly contested primary election.
The APC gubernatorial primary election was held on Friday through a direct party primary election in all the wards in the state.
The secretary of the Kogi State APC Primary Election Committee, Hon. Patrick Obahiagbon, on behalf of the chairman of the panel, Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State announced the results and declared Mr. Ahmed Usman Ododo as the winner of the gubernatorial primary election.
According to him, Ododo scored a total of 78,704 votes and won the direct primary election with a wide margin to defeat six other contestants in the governorship race.
The distant runner-up, Barr. Mohammed Ozigi Salami, scored 1,506 votes while the Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Smart Adeyemi, scored the least number of total votes 311
It could be recalled that about seven other aspirants including the state’s deputy governor, Edward Onoja, Governor Yahaya Bello’s Chief of Staff, Pharm. Mohammed Asuku had earlier on Thursday night stepped down from the gubernatorial race.
