Former Senate President, David Mark, has won the Benue South rerun election held on Saturday.
The
Independent National Electoral Commission declared this morning the
former senate President winner of the polls. In
the collated result announced, Mark, representing the Peoples
Democratic Party won 84,192 votes while his challenger, Daniel
Onjeh of the All Progressives Congress (APC) got 71,621 votes.
Mark won in five local governments, while Onjeh won in four. The result means mark will continue his stint at the senate which extends from 1999.
An appeal court had ordered fresh elections after Onjeh,
a former student union activist and newspaper publisher challenged
Mark’s victory in the 28 March election last year.
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