The Benue State Governor and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been declared winner of the just concluded supplementary governorship election in the state.
Mr Ortom, who recently defected to the PDP, defeated his closest rival, Emmanuel Jime of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and thirty-one other contestants.
Declaring the result, the state returning officer, Sebastain Maimako, said Mr Ortom polled a total of four hundred and thirty-four thousand, four hundred and seventy-three votes to beat Mr Jime who got three hundred and forty-five thousand, one hundred and fifty-five votes.
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