Aviashima Toom, Makurdi
The Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) has declared the
governorship election in Benue State
inconclusive.
In the election, incumbent Samuel Ortom, candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) had 410,576 votes, while Emmanuel Jime of the All Progressive Congress (APC) secured 329,022 votes.
With a wide margin of 81,554 between the
two contestants and 121,019 cancelled
votes, Prof. Sabastine Maimako, who was
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the Returning Officer in Benue State,
declared the election inconclusive.
He said: “Going by the 1999 Constitution
of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as
amended, I am constrained to say that the
governorship election is inconclusive.”
Maimako stated that supplementary election
would be conducted in 21 days in places
where there were cancellations
