A major
political loss hit the All Progressives Congress in Benue State on Monday as no
fewer than 2,000 members of the party defected to the Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP.
The party
members, who pitched their tents with the PDP in Vandekiya LGA of the state on
Monday hinged their reason for defection on Governor Samuel Ortom’s failed
leadership style.
Leading the
crop of the over 2,000 defectors was former APC stalwarts, Hon. Demenongu Unom
and Laha Dzever.
Unom, who
spoke on behalf of the defectors, said he decided to dump the APC alongside his
teeming supporters due to the glaring failed leadership style of Ortom.
He said the
regime of Ortom had brought bad luck to Benue State.
Receiving
the decampees, the state’s chairman of the party, Sir Hon John Ngbede, who
spoke on behalf of the former governor of the state, Gabriel Torwua Suswam,
welcomed the new members on board.
He said the
party was currently mending their broken fences to capture power from the APC
in 2019.
-DP
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