Benue North-West Senatorial District

Benue North-West Senatorial District is well known as Zone B in Benue State.[1][2] The senatorial district has seven local governments which include Buruku, Tarka, Guma, Makurdi, Gwer and Gwer West. There are 90 electoral wards and 1,286 polling units as of 2019 polls. The current representative of Benue North-West Senatorial District is Emmanuel Orke-Jev of the People's Democratic Party, PDP.[3]

List of senators representing Benue North-West District

Senator Party Year Assembly Electoral history
Joseph Waku 1999 - 2003 4th
Joshua Adagba PDP 2003 - 2005 5th Died 27 July 2005
Fred Orti PDP 2005 - 2007 5th Completed Joshua Adagba tenure
George Akume PDP (2007-2011)


ACN (2011-2015)

APC (2015-2019)

2007 - 2019 6th

7th

8th

Emmanuel Orker-Jev PDP 2019 - present 9th

References

  1. Published. "Observer group wants elections cancelled in Benue North West". Punch Newspapers. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  2. Njoku, Ime (2019-02-26). "2019 Elections: PDP wins Benue Northwest Senatorial elections". Voice of Nigeria. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  3. "Benue North-West: Again Sen. Orker Jev defeats Akume at Appeal Court". The Sun Nigeria. 2019-11-08. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
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