Among the off-cycle elections that were held in Nigeria over the weekend, the Kogi governorship election appears to be the most surprising based on the results released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Before now, the election in the state has always been between the All Progressive Congress (APC) and the People Democratic Party (PDP); the APC has always come first while the PDP came second but this time around, a surprising twist took place.
In the result declared, APC came first as usual, but PDP was replaced by the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in second position.
PDP came third, dishonourably because the difference between the party and SDP is far above 150,000 votes.
In several years, it has not happened in this manner and was not expected this year because the PDP’s candidate, Dino Melaye, is quite popular and was very visible during the campaign period.
However, all that happened in the election had been foretold by the Nigerian prophet, Primate Elijah Ayodele before the election.
Primate Ayodele had always maintained that if the opposition wanted to win the election, they should come together to support one candidate. Last month, he warned the APC to be on alert, as he foresees the SDP putting up a massive fight.
He mentioned that the SDP must not be underestimated, while stating that the PDP will have a confusing arrangement.
The cleric had stated: ‘’In Kogi State, the APC must not sleep because the SDP will give the party a big fight. SDP is ready with every mercenary in Kogi State. The SDP must not be underestimated. The PDP will have a confusing arrangement. They must not overlook the SDP.’’
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A few days before the election, Primate Ayodele made another statement mentioning that the election in Kogi State will be tough and that APC will win but the SDP candidate will be a factor in the election.
He stated that the PDP will not do anything serious in the election and that the opposition will not win, but the candidate of the SDP will make the election tough. He revealed that results will not be counted in some areas if care isn’t taken. Furthermore, he concluded by saying APC will win the election, no matter how the margin is.
These were his words:
‘’The election in Kogi State is between the APC and the SDP. Ajaka will fight a serious battle with the incumbent. Oppositions will fail in the state because they didn’t do a coalition, they are all selfish, if not, a coalition would unseat the ruling party, but they all want to be in power at the same time.
“I am not seeing what the PDP will do in the election, but the SDP will make it a fight to finish. The election will be serious and if care isn’t taken, they won’t count results in some areas. The election in Kogi will be for APC, no matter how the margin is, it will be a tug of war.’’
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As Primate Ayodele said, the APC won the election, though not by a landslide because of the efforts of the SDP candidate. Many didn’t believe the SDP would make any serious impact in the election, but as the man of God foretold, the SDP candidate turned out to be a ‘factor’ in the election.
The PDP, on the other hand, fell badly in this election with a token of 46,362 votes. SDP got 259,052 while APC got 446,237 votes.
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