People Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship Candidate in Benue State, Governor Samuel Ortom, win Governorship supplementary election held yesterday 23rd March 2019 in the state.
Samuel Ortom which has served his first term in office contested for second term, and won, his was declare winner and reelected these afternoon.
According to channel TV, “The Returning Officer in the state, Professor Maimako Sebastian, declared him the winner on Sunday after he polled 434,473 votes to beat his closest rival and candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Emmanuel Jime, who got 345,155 votes – a margin of 89,318.
In the March 9 exercise, Ortom scored 410,576 votes over Jime who scored 329,022 votes”.
The election was, however, declared inconclusive by the electoral officer as a result of the gap between the cancelled votes of 121,019 and the winning margin of 81,554 votes.
The supplementary election was held in 204 polling units across 22 Local Government Areas.
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