Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has lost his Senatorial ambition to Titus Zam of the All Progressives Congress (APC)
Declaring the results at the State office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Returning Officer, Prof. Rufus Shaato, said Titus Zam of the APC scored a total number of 143,152 votes against Governor Ortom’s 106,882 votes followed by the Labour Party’s candidate candidate, Mark Terseer Gbillah, who got a total votes of 51,950.
Meanwhile, Senator Patrick Abba Moro of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has retained his seat in the Benue South senatorial election.
Moro floored his closest challenger, Dan Onjeh of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to retain his seat in the Red Chamber.
Joe Ojobo of the Labour Party came third after the final result of the election was announced on Monday in Otukpo, the headquarters of Benue South Senatorial District.
See result below:
1. Ado
APC – 4,500
LP – 5,642
PDP – 3,570
2. Agatu
APC – 4,724
LP – 2,900
PDP – 6,968
3. Apa
APC – 4,840
LP – 3,868
PDP – 5,882
4. Obi
APC – 5,755
LP- 2,109
PDP – 8,548
5. Ogbadibo
APC – 4,698
LP – 6,414
PDP – 5,924
6. Ohimini
APC – 4,763
LP – 2,465
PDP – 7,879
7. Oju
APC – 11,266
LP – 2,302
PDP – 13,271
8. Okpokwu
APC – 5,232
LP – 5,773
PDP – 7,641
9. Otukpo
APC – 14,181
LP – 8,721
PDP – 16,776
TOTAL
APC – 59,938
LP – 40,194
PDP – 76,459