It’s Official: PDP’s Samuel Ortom wins re-election as Benue governor
The Benue State Governor and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party has been declared winner of the just concluded supplementary governorship election in the state.
Declaring the result, the state returning officer, Sebastain Maimako, said Mr Ortom polled a total of 434,473 votes to beat Mr Jime who got 345,155 votes.
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