Senator representing Kogi West, Smart Adeyemi, says the results of the All Progressives Congress governorship primary were ready before the election was conducted.
On Friday, Patrick Obahiagbon, secretary of the Kogi APC primary election committee, announced Ahmed Ododo, a former local government auditor-general in Kogi state, as the winner of the governorship primary.
Ododo scored 78, 704 votes to beat six other contestants including Adeyemi who came seventh with 311 votes.
The governorship candidate is believed to be the preferred candidate of Yahaya Bello, governor of the state.
Faulting the conduct of the election during a news conference in Abuja on Saturday, Adeyemi said results were already prepared before the election.
“We witnessed a new phenomenon of electoral malpractices and embedded corruption in the electoral process of our country,” he said.
“I have heard of riggings of elections but I have not heard of the new phenomenon which we must do all we can to stop in this country.
