Governor Samuel Ortom of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has just been declared winner of the governorship election in Benue State.
Ortom who defected to PDP last year was re-elected for a second term after he defeated his closest rival, Emmanuel Jime of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and 31 other contestants at both the main and supplementary elections.
Declaring the result, the state returning officer, Sebastain Maimako, said Ortom polled a total of 434,473 votes to win Mr Jime who got 345,155 votes.
Before the supplementary election, Ortom had scored 410,576 votes and had a lead of 81,554 votes over Mr Jime who had scored 329,022 votes.
The supplementary election was held in 204 polling units in 22 local governments, which had a total of 121,299 registered voters.
