Supplementary Polls: Governor Ortom survives fierce re-election battle; wins by margin of 89,308 vote

The incumbent governor of Benue state, Samuel Ortom of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has been declared winner of the State governorship election.

Governor Ortom was declared winner on Sunday by the electoral commission INEC, after the supplementary election held in some polling units across the state.


The PDP candidate defeated his main challenger, Emmanuel Jime of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to win his second term ticket.

Announcing the result on Sunday, the Returning Officer, Prof Sebastian Maimako, said Ortom of the PDP polled 434,473 votes to humble APC’s Jime, who came behind with 345,155 votes, thus, winning with 89,318 margin.