With about 2,096 margin, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congres (APC) has defeated his closest rival, Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), to win Benue state in the Saturday’s presidential election.
Though Obi’s LP won more Local Government Areas in the state. Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) came third in the election.
Final results;
APC – 310,468
PDP – 130,081
LP – 308,372
NNPP -4740
Total valid votes -770,075
Rejected votes – 27,687
Total votes cast -797, 762