Former Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye has won the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ticket for the Kogi State Governorship Election scheduled for November 11, 2023.
The chairman, PDP primary Election Committee, Ahmed Makarfi announced the results on Sunday at the end of the indirect primary held in Lokoja, the state capital.
Dino polled 313 votes to defeat his closest rival, Jabiru Usman who polled 127 votes.
A former Deputy Governor, Yomi Awoniyi scored 77 votes while the party’s governorship candidate in 2019, Musa Wada had a total of 56 votes.
Dino will contest the governorship poll alongside a former Auditor General of Local Government in Kogi State, Usman Ododo who is the candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the state.
Ododo is also the preferred candidate of Governor Yahaya Bello.
