The Returning Officer of the election, Professor OLAJIDE LAWAL made the announcement at the collation centre in Kogi State.
According to him, Senator ADEYEMI polled a total of eighty eight thousand three seventy three votes to beat Senator DINO MELAYE of the People’s Democratic Party who scored sixty two thousand one hundred and thirteen votes.
RUFUS AIYENIGBA of the Social Democratic Party who came third was said to have polled six hundred and fifty nine votes.
The Independent National Electoral Commission made the declaration two weeks after the first ballot was declared inconclusive.
