As brief as the occasion was three PDP stalwarts led
hundreds to defect into the APC. His in-laws decorated him and his wife in TIV
traditional attire and also pledged their support towards the realization of
his aspiration.
In Naka, headquarters of Gwer-West PDP chieftains including
several former council chairmen and aides to Governor Gabriel Suswam dumped
their former party for the APC.
The former chairmen were Abaji, Godfrey Ichoghol, and Andrew
Ayande while the aides were Francis Nyibiam, a former Adviser to Governor Moses
Adasu now current Senior Special Assistant to Governor Gabriel Suswam and his
colleague, Anta Igbaato, alias Galadima.
The victory of the All Progressives Congress, APC, at the
Presidential and National Assembly Elections has sparked a new wave of cross
carpeting from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, into the majority party in
Benue State beginning with thousands in Aondona and Naka towns in Gwer West
local government area.
It all started when the governorship candidate of the party,
Chief Dr Samuel Ortom, and his entourage which included his campaign Director
General, Professor Steve Ugbah, had a stopover in Aondona, where his wife,
Chief Mrs. Eunice Erdoo Ortom hails from.
Speaking at the two places Chief Dr Ortom expressed
happiness that the chieftains had responded to the spirit of change sweeping
across the country by jumping into the train as it made its last phase of the
journey and enjoined those still outside to also move in.
He pledged those that his if voted into office, his
administration would provide critical infrastructure including good roads,
portable water, electricity, and health care even as he would implement the
free and compulsory primary and secondary education enshrined in the APC
manifesto.
Chief Dr Ortom also pledged to pay arrears of salaries and
pensions and also tackle unemployment.
He maintained that he considered Gwer-West as his home since
his wife hailed from the area and was counting on the support of the people of
the place to make it to Makurdi Government House.
Leaders of the defectors who spoke said the PDP had outlived
its usefulness hence the need for an alternative platform to address the
yearnings and aspirations of the people.
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