Other members of the G-5 grouping – Samuel Ortom (Benue) Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu) Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia) – all lost their senatorial bids...
Benue StateThough it is being run by a PDP governor Samuel Ortom who has endorsed the Labour Party's Obi Benue State could still be taken by the APC whose candidate Father Hyacinth Alia a Catholic Priest has emerged as an improbable favourite...
Others high profile casualties include Governors Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia) Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi) Darius Ishaku (Taraba) Samuel Ortom (Benue) Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu) Simon Lalong (Plateau) and Ben Ayade (Cross River) who lost their bids to represent their senatorial districts in the National Assembly...
One of Wike's most vociferous allies is Benue State governor and PDP chieftain Samuel Ortom whose state has been at the forefront of armed clashes between herders and local farmers...
In the north Governor Nasir el Rufai of Kaduna State and his counterpart in Benue Samuel Ortom are locked in a bitter exchange of words over who should take the blame for the worsening violence...
For some like the PDP governor of Benue Samuel Ortom that triggered a fearsome counter-attack from the federal government...
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It may have had in mind Benue State governor Samuel Ortom who has accused Buhari of ethnic and religious bias on security matters...
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In Benue State PDP governor Samuel Ortom is seeking a second term after defecting from the APC last year...
Then there are the state governors in the Middle Belt – Kwara's Abdulfatah Ahmed and Benue's Samuel Ortom (AC Vol 54 No 22 Jonathan's dialogue plan outflanks rebels)...
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue has claimed that although he warned top officials in Abuja of impending attacks by herdsmen on villages in his state no security help was forthcoming...
