OSHIOMHOLE REACTS TO GOV. ORTOM’S EXIT FROM APC
OSHIOMHOLE
REACTS TO GOV. ORTOM’S EXIT FROM APC
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has
reacted to the announcement by Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, that he
is no longer with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Ortom made the
declaration at the banquet hall of the Government House in
Makurdi, the state capital on Monday.
He spoke while swearing in the newly
appointed Special Adviser on Local Government and Cheftaincy Affairs, Jerome
Torshimbe.
Ortom’s Chief Press Secretary, Terver
Akase, quoted the governor as saying that, “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.”
But in his response, APC National
Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole recalled that the governor had on several occasions
promised that he would not leave the ruling party except he was pushed out.
He spoke to newsmen after a closed door
meeting with members of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) in Abuja.
“I know that Governor Ortom is a very
senior member of the party and he has said so repeatedly in print and has said
to me one on one that he will not leave the APC unless he was pushed out.
“Since I assumed the chairmanship of
this party along with my colleagues in the NWC, I know of a fact, that we have
not shut out any governor and certainly not Gov Ortom.
“And in these days of social media, I
will not be responding on the basis of rumor and unverified reports,” the APC
chairman said.
