By joshua 
Alleged Forgery: Kogi APC Electoral Primary Committee Forges Signature of Returning Officer.
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An alleged case of forgery aimed at overturning the outcome of the concluded APC Kogi West Senatorial primary has been uncovered, with party stakeholders accusing members of the Lawal Sama’ila Abdullahi electoral primary committee of forging the returning officer’s signature and replacing the original certified results with a fake one.
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On the 18th of May, 2026 the All Progressive Congress (APC) conducted its Senatorial Primary Election nationwide. Senator Sunday Karimi was publicly declared winner of the primary after polling 51,665 votes, according to the official result announced by the APC Kogi West Senatorial District Returning Officer, Haruna Isah.
The returning officer said Karimi defeated four other aspirants and submitted the certified result to the APC Kogi State Senatorial Primary Election Committee headed by Lawal Sama’ila Abdullahi.
Stakeholders of the party in Kogi west alleged that a separate result sheet with different figures surfaced afterward, with a forged signature of the returning officer. They said the move was exposed before it could be processed further by the National Headquaters of the party.
The original official results announced after the primary as seen on the original result sheet are;
1. Senator Sunday Karimi Steve – 51,665 votes
2. Samuel Aro – 620 votes
3. Smart Adeyemi – 571 votes
4. Alhaji Abubakar Zakari Ola – 414 votes
5. Elizabeth Adedoyin – 18 votes
Stakeholders in Kogi West APC say the alleged plot is a direct attack on the party’s integrity and on the mandate freely given by members of the party in a direct primary election across the 85 wards in the Senatorial District.
“The margin was clear and decisive. Any attempt to replace that with a forged document is an assault on party members who came out to vote,” one stakeholder stated.
APC stakeholders in Kogi West has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR and the party’s national leadership to immediately intervene with a strong demand that those found liable for the alleged forgery and result tampering be arrested and prosecuted to serve as deterrent for others.