I am going nowhere as Ortom makes a U-turn, says I am still in APC

The Governor of Benue State, Samuel
Ortom, has recanted his earlier declaration suggesting that he has left
the All Progressives Congress.

He said he was still a member of the APC and was impressed with the intervention of the national leadership of the party.

The governor said that he was prepared to give the party the benefit of the doubt.

Ortom made his new position known while
speaking to journalists after a closed-door meeting with the National
Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, and other
members of the APC National Working Committee, at the party National
Secretariat, in Abuja, on Thursday.

He had earlier announced his decision to
leave the party which he compared to a football pitch at a public
function held in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, on Monday.

Ortom however announced a reversal of
his decision after Thursday’s meeting. According to him, it was the
Benue State chapter of the APC that gave him “a red card” but that the
national leadership had nullified it.

The governor said, “It was the Benue APC
that gave me a red card not the national APC and I took (it) that it
was enough to make myself available out of the pitch, but the leadership
of the party told me that the decision of the party leadership at the
national level is superior to that of any individual or group of people
and I think that is good enough.

“They have spoken to him (Senator George
Akume); they have spoken to me and the state stakeholders are going to
be spoken to and that’s where I belong. We have not concluded the
matter, it’s an ongoing process. I always stand for peace, and I always
want peace to prevail, that’s what I call for.

“I appreciate the intervention of the
party’s leadership and I hope that we will be able to resolve the matter
of differences. I am here in the APC. I am a member of the APC, I am
still flying the flag of the APC, I only said I was given a red card but
I have been corrected by the national secretariat.”

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