Alaye Eremie, the Chairman of the governorship Electoral Committee, declared Ayua winner of the primaries having scored 191 votes on Saturday in Makurdi.
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Kris Atsaka, former Chairman, Nigeria Union of Journalists in Benue Council has emerged the Labour Party candidate for 2019 State House of Assembly election.
The Nigeria Union of Teachers in Benue has called on Governor Samuel Ortom to recruit more teachers to fill the vacancies in schools.
Onjeh, who lost to former Benue Deputy Governor, Steve Lawani, in his bid to clinch the party’s ticket to contest in the 2019 general elections, said the polls were marred by irregularities.
After its assessment, the National Emergency Management Agency has declared 12 States along Rivers Niger and Benue as worst affected by flood disaster this year, while other states are being monitored.
Mimi Adzabe-Orubibi, former Executive Chairman, Benue Internal Revenue Service, has won the APC ticket to contest for the Benue North-East senatorial seat.
The Governorship Candidate of the Peoples Redemption Party in Benue, Rev. Frederick Ikyaan, has promised to transform the state in four years, if elected into office in 2019.
Joe Tondo, its state chairman, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Makurdi that the extension became necessary due to poor sales so far recorded.
A Peoples Democratic Party Presidential aspirant, Senator David Mark, has urged delegates to the party’s national convention scheduled to hold in Port Harcourt to vote for him in the interest of unity, stability and prosperity of the nation.
Senator John Owan-Enoh has been declared winner of the All Progressive Congress gubernatorial primaries in Cross River, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
The Organising Secretary, All Progressives Congress in Benue, Mark Hanmation, says the party has yet to receive electoral materials for the conduct of its Senatorial primaries across the three senatorial districts in the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Ortom defeated other three contestants; John Tondo, Paul Orhii and Felix Atume at the primary election.
The aspirants, Dave Iorhembe, Dr. Gabriel Nyitse and Joe Iorapuu, all accepted to step aside in the interest of the party.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Senator Barnabas Gemade who recently defected from the PDP to the SDP, was made SDP’s National Leader.
Some of the IDPs expressed their concerns during the assessment tour of the IDPs camp by ActionAid Nigeria in Makurdi, on Saturday.
Nyitse in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Makurdi expressed readiness for the party’s primaries.
Dankwambo, who is aspiring to be president on the platform of the PDP, made the promise on Friday in Makurdi, during a consultancy visit to Governor Samuel Ortom.
The Benue chapter of the All Progressive Congress said it has completed the distribution of electoral materials to 23 local government areas for its presidential primaries.
The swearing in took place on Thursday in Makurdi.
Comfort Angula, a retired local government worker, has emerged as the governorship candidate of the National Rescue Movement in Benue.