Rose Ejembi, Makurdi
Governor Samuel Ortom in company with Senators David Mark and Iyorcha Ayu on Sunday evening stormed the premises of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to lodge a formal complaint about the movement of results from Gboko Local Government Area of the state.
Ortom who spoke with newsmen after meeting with the Resident Commissioner, Nentawe Yilwatda, said he got a complaint that some soldiers went to Gboko and high jacked the result of the entire Gboko local government to Makurdi without taking the PDP agents along.
He said the development became worrisome especially as according to him, the senator representing Benue North East, Senator George Akume, had vowed to upturn the results coming from the area.
The governor who was also accompanied by the PDP senatorial candidate for the district, Oker Jev, said the REC had however, assured them that there wasn’t going to be any problem as the PDP agents would be allowed to participate in the collation of the results.
He noted that it was on record from results collated so far that PDP had won six out of the seven local government areas of the zone, adding that the PDP had already petitioned to the relevant authorities on the result coming from Tarka where its party agents were chased away.
Ortom also lamented that up till the time of this report, the whereabouts of his central agent, Dr. Cletus Tokyaa, was yet to be known more than 24 hours after he was picked up by the police.