Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom Re-Elected

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom Re-Elected

Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, has been re-elected for a second term.

The Returning Officer in the state, Professor Maimako Sebastian
declared him winner this afternoon after he polled a total of 434,473
votes to beat his closest rival and APC candidate, Emmanuel Jime, who
got 345,155 votes.

Ortom who came into office in 2015 on the platform of the APC, defected to the PDP in July 2018.