ANGRY YOUTHS STOP ORTOM’S CONVOY IN BENUE, INSIST HE MUST NOT SEE BUHARI, APC LEADERS [PHOTOS]
ANGRY
YOUTHS STOP ORTOM’S CONVOY IN BENUE, INSIST HE MUST NOT SEE BUHARI, APC LEADERS
[PHOTOS]
A coalition of Benue youths comprising of over forty groups
today prevented Governor Samuel Ortom from attending a scheduled meeting with
the All Progressives Congress, APC, National leadership in Abuja.
The Governor was leaving Government House, Makurdi for the trip when they
blocked his route carrying placards.
Some of the placards read “Ortom don’t go back to APC,” “We
don’t have land to donate for ranching,” “APC is Miyetti party,” Our farms are
not for cows,” You must leave APC,” Ortom is our party, ” and “2019: On Ortom
we stand.”
It reports that the spokesmen of the coalition, Terrence Kuanum, and Pastor
Dave Ogbole advised the Governor not to make the trip for further discussions
with the APC leadership on his membership of the party but to rather look for
an alternative platform.
They threatened that if he attended the meeting they would
vote him out in 2019.
To underscore their anger, they ordered that the APC flag
should be removed from the Governor’s official car immediately and the
Governor’s driver complied.
Governor Ortom who was already on his way to Abuja for the meeting with the APC
leaders pleaded with the youths to allow him attend the meeting, assuring that
their interest would be protected.
But the youths, however, refused, insisting that, the only
option available to them was for the Governor to make a U-turn.
He turned back with his entourage.
An eyewitness, Nelson Ogbu, told Reporters that “The youths
angrily removed the APC flag on the Governor’s vehicle and asked him to go back
to Government House, threatening to vote him out if he insists on going to
Abuja for the meeting. But the youths, however, refused, insisting that, the
only option available to them was for the Governor to make a u turn.”
