Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has lost his senatorial bid for the Benue North West constituency to a former aide, Titus Zam of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The returning officer, Prof. Rufus Shaato declared Zam the winner of the election at 3:12 pm at the INEC zonal office in North bank, Makurdi.
Declaring the result before journalists and party agents, Shaato said that Zam scored a total of 143,151 to emerge winner of the election as against Peoples’ Democratic Party’s Samuel Ortom who polled a total of 106, 882 to come second while the candidate of the Labour Party, Mark Gbillah, had a total of 51,950 votes.
