Dino Melaye
Melaye clinches Kogi PDP governorship ticket for Nov. 11 election
Party agent of the main opposition, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the National Collation Centre in Abuja for the 2023 General Elections, ex-Senator Dino Melaye has clinched the party’s governorship ticket ahead of the November 11 off-season election in Kogi State.
Melaye, a former senator representing Kogi West and also a one-time member of the House of Representatives representing the Kabba/Ijumu Federal Constituency, won the ticket during the PDP governorship primary election in Lokoja, Sunday, after polling 313 votes to defeat his closest rival, Jabiru Usman who polled 127 votes.
Chairman, PDP primary Election Committee, and former Kaduna State governor, Ahmed Makarfi who announced the results at end of the indirect primary also announced that a former Deputy Governor of the state, Yomi Awoniyi scored 77 votes while the party’s governorship candidate in 2019, Musa Wada had a total of 56 votes.
Dino will now square off to the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), a former Auditor General of Local Government in Kogi State, Usman Ododo, who emerged last week at the party’s primary election.
Ododo is also the preferred candidate of the incumbent governor, Yahaya Bello of the APC.
Melaye hails from Ayetoro Gbede in Ijumu Local Government Area of Kogi State.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed November 11, this for the conduct of three governorship elections in Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa states which form part of its 2023 off-season electoral calendar.
