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According to reports, Yahaya Bello the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), scored the highest votes cast in the keenly contested governorship election in Kogi state alleged to have been riddled with violence and electoral malpractices.
         Bello polled 406,222 to defeat Musa Wada of the Peoples Democratic Party, who scored 189,704 in the election. As already collated by INEC, it means Bello defeated Wada with a total of 216,518. Meanwhile, the PDP agent at the final collation centre rejected the outcome of the election in some local government areas and insisted that the exercise did not take place, but that results were doctored, manufactured and handed over to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). He was backed, in some instances, by agents of the other political parties. There were wide reports of violence in most parts of the state during the election. Observers also claimed that there were incidents of vote buying. Many of them called for the cancellation of the exercise. The PDP agent mentioned areas including Okene, Adaji, Olamaboro and some others as areas where elections were either marred or results doctored.