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DOSSIER · SENATORUPDATED JUN 2026

Titus Tartengar Zam

Senator, Benue North-West (Senatorial) · APC

Assessment Profile06

Senator Titus Tartenger Zam entered the 10th Senate in June 2023 after defeating former Governor Samuel Ortom in the Benue North-West election, polling 143,151 votes on the APC platform. His identifiable legislative record includes sponsoring the National Animal Husbandry and Ranches Commission Establishment Bill 2024, which scaled second reading on 5 June 2024 despite stiff opposition from northern senators, and a March 2025 motion calling for the deployment of troops and establishment of a permanent military base in Gwer-West LGA following armed attacks on communities in his home constituency. He chairs two Senate committees: Rules and Business (from August 2023) and North Central Development Commission. No independent audit of constituency project spending has been published, and no EFCC or ICPC proceedings have been reported against him. A Benue State Income and Expenditure Commission of Inquiry summoned Zam in November 2024 and again in December 2024 over his tenure as Special Adviser to former Governor Ortom on Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs; the outcome of those proceedings is not publicly resolved. He lost his APC re-election primary for Benue North-West in May 2026, coming last with 2,557 votes against the winner's 93,412. Overall, this is a thin first-term record with two substantive legislative acts and unresolved inquiry proceedings; confidence is low given the sparse publicly verified record.

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Legal Record07

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Sources14
  1. 1Titus ZamWikipedia
  2. 2APC's Titus Zam defeats Ortom to clinch senate seatTheCable · 2023-02-27
  3. 3President Tinubu will tackle insecurity — Benue Senator, Zam assures constituentsDaily Post Nigeria · 2023-09-04
  4. 4Leadership of the Standing Committees of the 10th Senate (2023-2027)PLAC Nigeria · 2023-08-01
  5. 5Senate Bill to Ban Open Grazing Passes Second Reading, Northern Senators KickThis Day Live · 2024-06-05
  6. 6Heated debate as bill to ban open grazing scales second reading in senateTheCable · 2024-06-05
  7. 7Insecurity: Nigerian Senate demands permanent military base in BenueDaily Post Nigeria · 2025-03-13
  8. 8Titus Zam: Why Natasha Akpoti wasn't invited to north central commission budget defenceTheCable · 2026-02-01
  9. 9Natasha not a member of Senate committee on NCDC — Sen Titus ZamDaily Post Nigeria · 2026-02-17
  10. 10Benue Commission issues fresh summons to Senator Zam, three othersThe Guardian Nigeria · 2024-11-25
  11. 11Benue Inquiry Commission summons Senator ZamThe Nation Newspaper · 2024-11-08
  12. 12APC senatorial primaries: Suswam floors Udende as Benue SSG's husband defeats ZamVanguard News · 2026-05-18
  13. 13Two Benue senators lose APC primaries as Suswam, Aber, Agbo winBusinessDay NG · 2026-05-18
  14. 14Benue North-West senatorial districtWikipedia