APC’s Akume loses bid to return to Senate vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
The former governor lost in last Saturday’s National Assembly election to People’s Democratic Party, PDP, candidate and member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Orker Jev.
Announcing the result of the election, which had generated a lot of anxiety and tension in the state, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, senatorial collation officer for the district, Prof. Nichodemous Ogbulu, declared the PDP candidate winner after poling a total of 157,726 votes.Akume on the other hand garnered 115,422 votes to suffer his first defeat since 2007 when he won his first election to the Senate.
Meanwhile, Benjamin Uzondu of the PDP also floored Terhide Utaan of APC to clinch Makurdi/Guma federal constituency seat. Declaring Uzondu winner of the election, the returning officer, Prof. Hyacinth Oluma, said the PDP candidate polled 50,454 votes to defeat APC candidate, who got 37,743 votes.
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