Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom and Businessman Ned Nwoko are among the successful aspirants at yesterday’s senate primaries of the People’s Democratic Party.
In Benue, Governor Samuel Ortom and former Gabriel Suswam emerged as unopposed flag bearers for Benue northwest Senatorial Zone and Benue North-East Senatorial Zone.
In Delta North, Prince Ned Nwoko, a former House Representatives member, won the ticket.
Nwoko defeated Paul Osaji with 242 votes. Osaji polled 67 votes.
Rivers State Deputy Governor, Mrs. Ipallibo Harry Banigo, won the ticket for the Rivers West Senatorial District.
Ipalibo, who hails from Degema Local Government Area, scored 264 votes to clinch the party’s ticket for Rivers West.
However, the exercise did not hold in the five states of the Southeast due to the Monday sit-at-home. It will hold today.
A member of the PDP’s Zonal Working Committee told our correspondent that the party would not risk the lives of its members.
