APCs Rev Father Alia wins Benue governorship race

Oru Leonard 

Rev Fr Hyacinth Alia has been declared Governor-Elect of Benue State having won the March 18 governorship election as the All Progressives Congress (APC), candidate.

The Catholic priest was declared winner of the election today leading the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), candidate by 250,023 margin.

According to INEC, Alia of APC polled 473,933 votes to defeat his closest rival PDP candidate, Titus Uba, who got 223,913 votes.

See details of how electorates voted as declared by INEC:

Final Declaration of Results Benue State

A- 4,263
AA- 116
AAC- 374
ADC- 2,516
ADP- 1,659
APC- 473,933
APGA- 3,086
APP- 244
LP- 41,881
NNPP- 1,187
NRM- 529
PDP- 223,913
PRP- 1,178
SDP- 1,157
YPP- 312
ZLP- 555

Total valid votes – 756,903
Total rejected votes – 11,499
Total votes cast – 768,402