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The All Progressives Congress in Benue says 3,000 supporters
of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have defected to APC in
Guma, the local government area of governor Samuel Ortom.
James Ornguga, APC’s acting state publicity secretary, made
this known to newsmen on Saturday in Makurdi.
He said: “We read a comical statement from the Chief Press
Secretary to the Governor of Benue State, Mr Terver Akase,
wherein he alleged that our party had organized the IDPs for
distribution of relief materials and ended up tagging same as a
“campaign rally”.
“This accusation is too infantile to have emanated from the
spokesperson of a sitting governor but since we are used to the
many lies of the Ortom administration in close to four years,
the APC can at most describe the action as shameful and a
display of immaturity from a panicky government.”
According to the statement, Benue APC on Friday organised a
defection ceremony at Daudu, Guma where a former speaker of
the state, Stephen Tsav, and over 3,000 PDP members from
Nyiev, Mbagwen and Mbawa defected to APC.
He said: “Everyone who witnessed that event would be forced
to commiserate with the Benue State Governor since it
marked the end of PDP in Guma, his home local government.
“Rather than mourn this gross deflation of the PDP in one of
its strongholds in Benue, Governor Samuel Ortom’s image
maker has opted to ridicule himself with careless words that
clearly expose the governor’s insomnia over this gathering.”
Source:- Politicsngr