The immediate past Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Samuel Ortom, has defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Ortom is the second chieftain of the PDPy from the state that has defected to the APC in the last one week. Gemade had earlier defected and picked the senatorial ticket for Benue North East on APC platform.
The former minister had written to his PDP ward chairman on Wednesday, signifying his intention to leave the party.
He immediately followed the resignation by picking the APC governorship form and submitting it to the party officials same day.
Ortom’s posters bearing the APC logo flooded the streets of Makurdi yesterday, even as he is billed to take part in the APC governorship primaries that was about to commence yesterday.
Meanwhile, a member of the House of Representatives representing Kwande/Ushongo of Benue, Benjamin Aboho, has again defected to the LP.
He had earlier this year defected from the APC to PDP but after he lost out at the PDP primaries to return to the lower legislation house, he defected to the LP on Wednesday where he is expected to pick the ticket.
Aboho had lost to Bob Tyough, another party stalwart, in the constituency at the PDP primaries aheld last Saturday.
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