Senator Dino Melaye has won the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ticket for the Kogi State governorship election scheduled for November 11, 2023.

According to the chairman of the PDP primary Election Committee, Ahmed Makarfi, the former Kogi West federal lawmaker polled 313 votes to defeat his closest rival, Jabiru Usman, who polled 127 votes.
Makarfi announced the results on Sunday at the end of the indirect primary held in Lokoja, Kogi State capital.
A former deputy governor, Yomi Awoniyi, scored 77 votes while the PDP governorship candidate in 2019, Musa Wada, had a total of 56 votes.

Melaye will contest the November 11, 2023 poll alongside a former auditor general of local governments in Kogi State, Usman Ododo, who is the candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the state among others. The incumbent governor, Yahaya Bello, had days ago endorsed Ododo.
Melaye recently fired back at Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State who laughed off his aspiration to succeed Governor Bello.

(TheNiche)