The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, at the banquet hall of the Government House in Makurdi on Monday announced that he is no longer a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Ortom stated this while swearing in the newly-appointed Special Adviser on Local Government and Chieftain Affairs, Jerome Torshimbe disclosed that the APC had given him the red card.
Speaking with DAILY POST on Monday, the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase, quoted his principal as saying, “As for party, I’ve been given the red card and I’m now outside the pitch. So, if I have been given the red card and I’m standing outside, that means I’m a free man.”
IgbereTv recalls that Governor Ortom had been reported as considering to dump the APC
Meanwhile, the Governor is yet to disclose the party he is moving to, assuring however that as soon as he makes up his mind in that regard, he would make it known to the Benue people.
He said, “I don’t know what will happen next but I’m waiting. If others approach me, then I will tell the Benue people that I’m joining another football club.”
He therefore called on the people of the state to remain united and not allow party or ethnicity cause division among them, stressing that God who helped him to win in 2015 is well able to see him through in the coming general elections.
“Let party or ethnicity not divide us. I’m a child of destiny and it’s only a God that will decide what I will be. These challenges that we see today, we shall see them no more. All that we are required to do is not to begin to be wayward in our conduct but to move to the righteous side of God. Once we do that, things will work out for our good,” he said.
