The Benue State National/State Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Makurdi, has nullified the election of the Senator representing Benue
North-East senatorial district, Emmanuel Udende of the All Progressives Congress and declared Gabriel Suswam of the Peoples Democratic Party as the winner of the election.
The three-man panel of Justices led by Justice Ory Zik-Ikeorha while delivering judgment in a peition According to Justice Zik-Ikeorha, the initial declaration by INEC that Udende of APC polled 135,573 votes to defeat Gabriel Suswam of the PDP with 112,231 votes which was wrong.
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