Kogi Politics: Musa Wada defeats ex Gov Idris Wada, Melaye to emerge PDP Guber candidate

Musa Wada

Musa Wada, an engineer, has emerged candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the November 16 governorship election.

He defeated other aspirants, including Idris Wada, his elder brother who is the immediate past governor of the state.



Engr. Musa Wada scored 748 votes, followed by Abubakar Idris with 710 votes, the former governor Captain Idris Wada came third, while Senator Dino Melaye came fourth.

Musa Wada, from Dekina Local Government area of Kogi State is said to be former governor of the State, Captain Idris Wada’s younger brother and also in-law to another former governor, Idris Ibrahim.

Sorting and counting of votes was concluded following the invasion of the venue on Wednesday by some gunmen who disrupted the congress.




Voting had ended and the sorting of votes was going on when the gunmen came to the venue at about 1:45 a.m. Wednesday and started shooting from different directions.

Votes in eight out of the 10 ballot boxes have already been sorted and countered before the disruption by the gunmen.

Following the disruption, the Governor Umar Fintiri led election panel called for a meeting of all aspirants where after a marathon session, it was agreed that sorting and counting should continue.


Luckily for the party, all agents already have figures of votes from the first seven ballot boxes that were already counted before the disruption. The other three boxes yet sorted out were in the possession of Governor Fintiri panel.