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Nigeria

Samuel Ioraer Ortom

Date of Birth: 23 April 1961
Place of Birth: Guma, Benue State


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State elections will reinforce three-party vote split

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...


Tinubu's last trick: from godfather to Kabiyesi

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...


Opposition fall-out shakes up election plans

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...


A country at war with itself

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...


The northern nexus

For some like the PDP governor of Benue Samuel Ortom that triggered a fearsome counter-attack from the federal government...


Governors get set

In Benue State PDP governor Samuel Ortom is seeking a second term after defecting from the APC last year...


Barbarians at the gate

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)...


Rumblings in the regions

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...


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