Hyacinth Alia, candidate of the All Progressives Congress
(APC), has won the Benue state governorship election.
Alia, a reverend father, garnered 473,933 votes to defeat
Titus Uba, the candidate of the Peoples Democracy Party (PDP), who polled
223,913 votes, to be declared the winner on Monday.
Herman Hembe of the Labour Party (LP) scored 41,881 votes.
Faruk Kuta, vice chancellor of the Federal University of
Technology, Minna, and the returning officer of the Benue state gubernatorial
election, announced the results on Monday at the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) collation centre in Makurdi, the state’s capital.
Out of the 23 LGAs in Benue, Alia secured 17, while Uba
clinched four and Hembe got one.
“This formal declaration is hinged on the fact that we are
relying on section 24(1) of the electoral Act (2022) and INEC guidelines for
the election,” Kuta said.
Elections were rescheduled in Kwande LGA over following a
mix-up of ballot papers on Saturday.
However, Kuta, said Alia was declared the winner in line
with the electoral act and the INEC guidelines.
The law provides for a winner to be declared if the margin
of lead of the candidate surpasses the number of registered voters or those who
have collected their permanent voter’s cards (PVCs) in an LGA.
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Congratulations, Benue State will be great again. The 8 stupid yrs of a gbajimba man is over.
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