Ahmed Usman Ododo, a former Auditor General for Local Governments in Kogi State, has emerged as the flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), for the Kogi State Governorship election.
Ododo polled a total of 78,704 votes to win the direct primary election held on Friday.
He defeated other contestants by a wide margin. His distant runner-up, Barr. Mohammed Ozigi Salami got 1,506 votes, while the Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Smart Adeyemi, polled the least number of votes 311.
The secretary of the Kogi State APC Primary Election Committee, Patrick Obahiagbon on behalf of the chairman of the panel, Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State, announced the results.
Obahiagbon declared Ododo as the winner of the Governorship primary election.
