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Amid the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Benue state governor, Gabriel Ortom has named a road leading to the national party’s chairman, Iyoricha Ayu after Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike.
Recall that since Governor Wike lost the presidential ticket of the party to the former Vice President, Atiku, the party has been factionalised.
In the faction, there are five major governors, now known as PDP G5. These include; Governors Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Nyesom Wike (Rivers), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu), and Gabriel Ortom (Benue).Amid the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Benue state governor, Gabriel Ortom has named a road leading to the national party’s chairman, Iyoricha Ayu after Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike.
Recall that since Governor Wike lost the presidential ticket of the party to the former Vice President, Atiku, the party has been factionalised.
In the faction, there are five major governors, now known as PDP G5. These include; Governors Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Nyesom Wike (Rivers), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu), and Gabriel Ortom (Benue).They alleged that the National Chairman of the PDP, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, who is an indigene of Benue state, manipulated the process to favour Atiku, a fellow northerner.
They subsequently asked Ayu to resign from office but the national chairman has refused to do so amid the attendant crisis in the party ahead of the 2023 general elections.
The G5 governors who are currently in Benue state witnessed the inauguration of some projects started and completed by Governor Samuel Ortom.
One of the projects inaugurated on Monday was the 2.1km Township Road constructed by the Ortom administration and named the Nyesom Wike Road.
The road, which is behind the Commissioner’s Quarters in Makurdi and which leads to Ayu’s house, was inaugurated by a former governor of Banue, Gabriel Suswam.They alleged that the National Chairman of the PDP, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, who is an indigene of Benue state, manipulated the process to favour Atiku, a fellow northerner.
They subsequently asked Ayu to resign from office but the national chairman has refused to do so amid the attendant crisis in the party ahead of the 2023 general elections.
The G5 governors who are currently in Benue state witnessed the inauguration of some projects started and completed by Governor Samuel Ortom.
One of the projects inaugurated on Monday was the 2.1km Township Road constructed by the Ortom administration and named the Nyesom Wike Road.
The road, which is behind the Commissioner’s Quarters in Makurdi and which leads to Ayu’s house, was inaugurated by a former governor of Banue, Gabriel Suswam.Before the inauguration, the G5 took time to address PDP supporters at a rally organised to drum support for all PDP candidates in Benue including the peaker of the Benue State House of Assembly and PDP governorship candidate in the state, Titus Uba.
Last night, Wike said the PDP G5 are bonded to save Nigeria and nobody can break their ranks in their continued insistence Ayu should resign as the national chairman of the party.
“People have tried to see how they can break us, you cannot. We are bonded to save Nigeria.
“That is why when you see all of us, we are impenetrable. Nobody can divide us. They have tried everything in this world to divide us, but no way.
“The way we operate; I will talk, we have people who don’t talk. You may be underrating them. By the time they will shock you, you will think it is Wike, it is not Wike you are seeing,” he said.Drame As Gov
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