Kogi Decides 2019: Live Governorship Election Updates
Welcome to Naijaparry Election Monitoring Room/Live Reports.
We shall be bringing to you live reports across Kogi as eager electorates troop out today November 16 to elect a Governor to lead the Confluence State.
Naijaparry understands that 24 candidates are running for the highest office in the north-central State, with about 1,485,828 electorates expected to vote in the 21 local government areas (LGAs) that make up the 28-year-old State.
Yahaya Bello, who is the incumbent governor and candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and Musa Wada of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) appear to be the frontrunners.
While Bello is from Kogi Central, which houses five of the 21 LGAs, Wada is from Kogi East, the political district with the highest population in the State.
And for the first time since 1999, the two main candidates for the Kogi governorship election are from different senatorial districts, with Kogi West, therefore, in a crucial position of deciding the winner.
This thread is open to everybody in Kogi State who is participating in one way or another during the election. Voters, observers, officials are encouraged to use the comment form below to report activities at the various polling unit and collation centres.
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We wish Kogi people a peaceful governorship election.
Live reports from Kogi State:
2:15pm: Voting, it has been gathered, commenced late due to Card Reader failure. It was also learned that there are insufficient stamps and PWD forms at the polling unit.
12:20pm: Governors Yahaya Bello’s main challenger in the 2019 Kogi State Governorship election, Musa Wada, has cast his vote, calling on electorates to defend their votes.
12:15pm: Thugs believed to be loyal to one of the political parties contesting the governorship election in Kogi state have allegedly attacked Sam Egwu of the Leadership newspapers and Sunday Omachi of Radio Kogi.
12.00pm: Meanwhile, there are reports that thugs have snatched ballot boxes at Dino Melaye’s polling unit.
11:45am: Officials of Nigeria’s electoral umpire, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), have been observed issuing 2015 ballot papers to voters instead of the ones for 2019.