Update On Kogi Election

Political observers keeping tabs on recent events in the camps of Wada and his party (PDP) are of the opinion that numerical strength aside, the party has not done enough to show its seriousness in wresting power from the APC, which had never tasted it in the state since the return of democracy in 1999.

It is hard to find the campaign posters, billboards or even handbills of the major opposition party around the state capital or in Kogi Central. In Kogi East, it is sparse.

While all the campaign paraphernalia of the APC is right there on the ground all around in the state, those of the PDP, including its governorship campaign council runs from Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

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While the APC has taken its campaigns to virtually all the areas of the state, the PDP did not step into Kogi Central, based on what is said to have been the ‘stay away’ order by the five council administrators from the majority Ebira speaking district of the state.

According to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the number of registered voters in Kogi stands at 1,646,350.

The number of collected PVCs stands at 1,485,828 (90.2 perc ent), while the number of the PVCs uncollected is 160,522 (9.8 per cent).

The state has 21 local government areas (LGAs), 239 registration areas and 2,548 polling units.

Gender distribution of registered voters is male (50.1 per cent) and female (49.9 per cent).