Benue: Declare me winner or conduct fresh primary – Guber aspirant tells APC 

A governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, APC, successful Benue State, Dr. Jeffrey Kuraun, has urged the party’s nationalist enactment to either nullify the precocious conducted governorship superior successful the authorities oregon recognise him arsenic the rightful winner.

Governor Hyacinth Alia was declared victor of the APC governorship superior aft polling 367,786 votes. Other contestants successful the workout see Terwase Orbunde, who secured 3,247 votes, and Kuraun, who got 2,923 votes.

Speaking with journalists successful Abuja on Thursday, Kuraun rejected the result of the exercise, insisting that the superior predetermination held successful Benue past week lacked credibility, transparency and fairness expected of a ruling governmental party.

He alleged that the process was manipulated and failed to correspond the genuine wishes of APC members dispersed crossed the 276 assembly wards and 23 section authorities areas of the state.

Kuraun further maintained that among each the aspirants, helium was the lone 1 who afloat complied with the APC guidelines up of the superior election.

“Prior to the superior election, I duly submitted the broad database of my ward and section authorities agents to the APC Governorship Primary Election Committee astatine the APC State Secretariat successful Makurdi. The submission was forma...