The Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, Adams Oshiomhole has said that he is relieved that Benue state Governor, Samuel Ortom has defected to the PDP.
This comes barely a week after the APC chairman had urged Ortom not to leave APC.
The former Edo state Governor while reacting to the Benue state governor’s defection said:“I am relieved as national chairman, and I believe that the leadership of the party in Benue is also relieved that Ortom has left the party and returned to the club he belongs,”
Oshiomhole called PDP a “club whose philosophy is to share the money and not develop communities”.
“We now have a clean platform to search for a clean and credible candidate from Benue, a candidate that can provide leadership that the great people of Benue state deserves. And not someone who seeks to make political capital out of human graves and celebrating the death of his own people,”
He went on to tear into Ortom, calling him an inept leader
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“He became a candidate by accident and the lesson for our party is that never again should anyone become a candidate on our platform by accident.
“It has to be by conscious choice, my aim is that we will have a political party that is defined by clear cut ideology and people will join or abstain from joining on the premise of conviction,” he said
Oshiomhole was not done as he added: “Whereas the President and Vice President had visited other states to commission projects, they had only visited Benue on condolence visits.
“It is OK to lament that there is no federal presence. Where is the explanation for the absence of projects in Benue State?
“Ortom’s argument is that he had diverted a lot of funds to security issues,”