{"id":748629,"date":"2019-11-20T19:20:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T19:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/20\/reports-of-violence-not-enough-to-discredit-election-yahaya-bello\/"},"modified":"2019-11-20T19:20:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T19:20:03","slug":"reports-of-violence-not-enough-to-discredit-election-yahaya-bello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/20\/reports-of-violence-not-enough-to-discredit-election-yahaya-bello\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports Of Violence Not Enough To Discredit Election: Yahaya Bello"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_724078\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-724078\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-724078\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/10589383_0c747a2d0ebbb008d5593769dac6e6a1_jpegf2c0a70573ac3bc4cad62f800285195f.jpeg\" alt=\"Yahaya Bello\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-724078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yahaya Bello and wife<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, Tuesday said reports of violence in the just concluded governorship election in the state is not enough to discredit the election.<\/p>\n<p>According to the governor, the election was free and fair despite reports by election observers.<\/p>\n<p>Bell was declared winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) after he polled 406,222 votes to defeat Musa Wada of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who scored 189,704 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Natasha Akpoti of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) came a distant third with a score of 9,482 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during an interview on Channels Television breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily, on Tuesday, he said, \u201cIn every election, there is bound to be one issue or the other and you can\u2019t take a pocket of issues to judge the general conduct of the election,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0Fake Police Caused Problems In Kogi, Bayelsa Polls: IGP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegarding the comments of the civil society organisations, they are entitled to their own opinions but let us know the parameters with which they are judging this election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many polling units did they visit out of 2,548 polling units, 239 wards and 21 local governments across the difficult terrains of this state? How many people have they reached out to?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave they interviewed all the electorate? So what are their yardsticks?\u201d the governor asked.<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Yahaya Bello and wife Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, Tuesday said reports of violence in the just concluded governorship election in the state is not enough to discredit the election. According to the governor, the election was free and fair despite reports by election observers. Bell was declared winner by the Independent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":748630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Reports Of Violence Not Enough To Discredit Election: Yahaya Bello - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/20\/reports-of-violence-not-enough-to-discredit-election-yahaya-bello\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Reports Of Violence Not Enough To Discredit Election: Yahaya Bello - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"\u00a0 \u00a0 Yahaya Bello and wife Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, Tuesday said reports of violence in the just concluded governorship election in the state is not enough to discredit the election. 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