Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has finally confirmed that he was in talks with the All Progressives Congress (APC) on the possibility of dumping the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), ahead of the 2023 elections.
He has however stressed that after consultations with some of his close allies and the State Congress of the PDP, he has made up his mind to decline the offer to jump ship.
The Governor who disclosed this during the State Elective Congress of the party at Aper Aku stadium in Makurdi on Saturday, therefore said, he would communicate his decision not to leave the PDP to his “friends” in the APC.
Ortom said, “It is true that the APC has invited me to come back to APC and they are propagating that (he is leaving the PDP) and this is far from the truth.
