APC Kogi West Primary: When Mathematics, Signatures and Miracles Collide
In what stakeholders now describe as a masterclass in “electoral creativity,” members of the All Progressives Congress Kogi West Senatorial Primary Committee have been accused of attempting to perform political magic by allegedly replacing authentic election results with what stakeholders call a “heaven-sent photocopy of destiny.”
The drama reportedly began after the APC conducted its nationwide senatorial primaries on May 18, 2026, where incumbent Senator Sunday Karimi emerged victorious with a commanding 51,665 votes.
The result was publicly announced by the returning officer, Haruna Isah, who confirmed that Karimi defeated four other aspirants by margins large enough to require binoculars to locate the opposition.
According to stakeholders, the certified result was duly submitted to the committee headed by Lawal Sama’ila Abdullahi. But just when party members thought democracy had finally taken a holiday from controversy, another result sheet reportedly surfaced from the political underworld, complete with “adjusted figures” and an allegedly forged signature of the returning officer.
According to report, the new document attempted to prove that in Nigerian politics, even signatures can apparently defect overnight.
The original result sheet, which stubbornly refused to disappear, reportedly showed the following scores:
Sunday Karimi Steve — 51,665 votes
Samuel Aro — 620 votes
Smart Adeyemi — 571 votes
Abubakar Zakari Ola — 414 votes
Elizabeth Adedoyin — 18 votes
Stakeholders expressed shock that anyone would attempt to overturn a margin so wide that even calculators reportedly gave up halfway through the computation.
“One candidate scored over fifty thousand votes while others were counting hundreds. Yet somebody somewhere still believed the election needed spiritual editing,” a party member remarked.
Party faithful in Kogi West described the alleged plot as an assault on the integrity of the APC and the wishes of members across the district’s 85 wards, warning that if result sheets can suddenly reproduce themselves, then democracy may soon require DNA testing.
The stakeholders have now called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the APC national leadership to intervene and ensure that anyone linked to the alleged forgery faces prosecution.
They insisted that while elections may sometimes produce surprises, signatures should at least remain loyal to their owners.
