Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan on Wednesday won the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) ticket as its candidate for Kogi Central Senatorial District.
She defeated Mamud Attah by 159 to 13 votes at the primary election held in Okene, while others got no vote.
Akpoti-Uduaghan, aka, the Amazon of Kogi politics on March 20 defected from Social Democratic Party (SDP) to the PDP to contest the senatorial primary election with thousands of her supporters.
She was the 2019 senatorial candidate of the SDP and hails from the same central senatorial district as the state governor, Yahaya Bello, who is in the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Akpoti-Uduaghan, after being declared the winner of the election, extended an olive branch to her co-contestants, urging them to join hands with her to win in the 2023 election.
“Kogi Central Senatorial District is our home and we must join hands to ensure that we build it up to a better place for all of us to dwell.
“I urge you all to join…
