The Benue State Collation/Returning Officer, Prof. Sabastine Maimaiko on Monday declared the Benue State governorship election inconclusive.
INEC said its decision was based on data that 121,011 electorates were either not able to vote or election did not hold in their areas.
The state returning officer, Sebastian Maimako, however, announced that Samuel Ortom of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) scored the highest number of votes of 410,576.
He was closely followed by Emmanuel Jime of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who polled a total number of 329,022 votes.
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