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- Pix(above): Rev Fr Hyacinth Alia
Rev Fr Hyacinth Alia of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has walloped the incumbent Gov Samuel Ortom’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to unseat the ruling party as new governor of Benue State.
Declaring Rev Alia the winner in Makurdi, Monday, the Independent National Electoral Commission said the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Rev Fr Hyacinth Alia, defeated the candidate of the PDP, Titus Uba, who scored 223,914 votes and the governorship candidate of the Labour Party, Hemma Hembe who scored 41,841 votes to come a distant third. APC’s Rev Alia polled 473,933 votes.
According to the INEC returning officer for the election, Professor Faruk Kuta, the APC governorship candidate won in 17 LGAs, PDP: four LGAs and Labour Party: one LGA.
The governorship election did not hold in Kwande Local Government Area due to print error in ballot papers meant for the council, even as the returning officer said the Commission relied on Section 24(1) of the Electoral Act and INEC guidelines to declare the winner of the election.
Explaining further, the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Professor Sam Egwu, said when the margin of lead is more than registered voters in the local government, the commission would declare a winner.
Kwande LGA with 15 Registration Areas has 172,294 registered voters while the margin of lead stands at 250,020 votes./SHARE THIS
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