The Independent National Electoral Commission has fixed November 30 for the rerun election for Kogi West Senatorial election.
Recalled that following the Appeal Court ruling Sen. Smart Adeyemi and Sen. Dino Melaye, the two political rivals returned to the trenches.
The November 16 election witnessed cancellation of results following widespread violence, thus only after November rerun would a winner emerge.
The following variables will guide properly what is at stake for the two political gladiators:
(a)The number of LGAs affected are 7
(b)No of RAs (Wards) are 20.
(c)There are 53 polling units affected.
(d)No of registered voters is 48,101
(e)No of PVC collected is 30,730
(f) Smart Adeyemi margin of win based on the result released so far is 20,570 _(Source: INEC)_
**PDP (Dino) needs 25,661 votes to win provided that 100 percent of those who collected PVC come out to vote.
**APC (Smart) needs 5072 votes to win provided 100 percent of those who collected PVC come out to vote.
(f)Kogi West total votes as at 16/11/19 is 105,504
(g)The PVC collected in Kogi West is 384,744
(h)The percentage voters turnout (based on Nov 16 election) is 27.42%
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