Apc candidate, Fr. Hyacinth Alia has been declared the winner of the Governorship election in Benue State.

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Declaring the results at the Independent National Electoral Commission office located at the Jonah Jang Crescent in Makurdi, the INEC Returning Officer Faruk Adamu Kuta said that ‘Hycienth Alia of the APC having satisfied the requirements of the law has been hereby declared elected’.

Governorship Election

According to Kuta, in the results of the 22 local government councils out of the 23 elections held, the APC candidate scored 473, 933 votes followed by the PDP’s Engr Titus Uba with 223, 913 votes, and Labour Party’s Barr Herman Hembe who scored 41, 841 votes. Prof Bem Angwe of the NNPP came fourth with 1, 187 votes.gov

Though due to the mix-up in the printing of the ballot papers for the Kwande local government council, elections have been rescheduled for Tuesday 21st March 2023.

The INEC returning officer however said that he has relied on section 24, sub-section 1 of the electoral act and the guidelines of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Federal Republic of Nigeria to declare the winner.

INEC however stated that the total number of people who have collected their PVCs in Kwande local government is 156, 826. Hycienth Alia leads his closest opponent with a vote difference of 250, 020.

The returning officer has announced that the total of valid votes cast was 756,903 pointing out that the rejected voters were 11,499 and those valid stood at 768,402. He enthused.

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