Defection: APC Summons Benue Governor to Emergency Meeting
NEWS DIGEST – The Deputy National Chairman (North), Sen. Lawal Shu’aibu of the ruling All Progressives Congress has summoned to Abuja for an urgent meeting, Senator George Akume and Governor Samuel Ortom.
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The two personalities are reportedly behind the crisis currenrly rocking the ruling party in Benue state.
A competent source, who preferred not to benamed, mentioned this to Daily Trust in
Abuja on Monday . The source said the deputy party chieftain summoned Sen George Akume and Gov Samuel Ortom to an urgent meeting in Abuja.
The source further explained that the meeting followed an announcement by the governor
that he was pulling out of the party.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the two known gladiators in the APC in Benue, Gov. Ortom and Sen. George Akume have been at daggers-drawn over the control of the party in the state.
Gov. Ortom had on Monday in Makurdi shortly after swearing in a new Special Adviser on
Bureau for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr Jerome Shimbe, renounced his
membership of APC.
According to the governor, he has ceased to be a member of the APC, following what he called “a red card” given to him.
He said the red card from APC would enable him to join any political party that has an
ideology worthy of being adopted by his administration.
The governor stated that the strained relationship between him and the party, under
which he contested the 2015 governorship election in 2015, had left him without a party.
However, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, had
on Monday in Abuja, described the alleged exit of the governor from the party as a rumour.
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