The
Deputy National Chairman (North), Sen. Lawal Shu’aibu has summoned to
Abuja for an urgent meeting the two main actors in the tussle for
leadership of the Benue chapter of the All Progressives Congress ( APC
).
A
competent source, who preferred not to be named, who made this known to
newsmen in Abuja on Monday 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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