Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom lost the race for the Benue North West senate seat to Titus Zam, a former aide and member of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
In the INEC zonal office in North Bank, Makurdi, at 3:12, Prof. Rufus Shaato, the returning officer, declared that Zam had won the poll.
Zam received 143,151 votes, according to Shaato, who also informed media and party officials of the results. With 106,882 votes, Samuel Ortom of the People's Democratic Party finished in second, and Mark Gbillah of the Labour Party took third place with 51,950 votes.
The governor lost 6 of the district's 7 local government councils, according to results from various voting places, wards, and local government area collation centres. Only in his own Guma local government did he succeed.
The future senator served as Ortom's special adviser on local government and chieftaincy affairs during his first term in office.
In order to preserve his position, Senator Abba Patrick Moro, an incumbent who represents the Benue South senatorial district, defeated Hon. Joseph Ojobo of the Labour Party (LP) and Comrade Daniel Onjeh of the All Progressive Congress (APC).
At the INEC Collation Center in Otukpo, Prof. Robert Tee, the chief returning officer for the Benue South Senate election, declared the outcomes. He claimed that Senator Moro received 76,459 more votes than his nearest rival, APC candidate Comrade Daniel Onjeh. 59,938 people voted for Onjeh.
With 40,194 votes, Labour Party candidate Joseph Ojobo finished third.
Results for the contest between Emmanuel Memga Udende of the APC and incumbent senator and former governor of Benue state Gabriel Suswam of the PDP were still being tallied as of the time this story was written.