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PDP Crisis: Ortom Rules Out Division in PDP

 Benue State governor Samuel Ortom has ruled out division in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) but admitted that the party is tackling issues that brought division one after the other.

The governor said the crisis rocking the PDP at the national level would soon be resolved and “we will soon become one.”

Ortom spoke yesterday during the PDP stakeholders’ meeting in Makurdi, the state capital.

He said the party’s candidate in the state, Hon. Titus Uba, who is away for over a month due to ill health, would be back in the first week of January.

It was learnt that the long absence of Uba has created a lot of anxiety and tension in the party.

The speaker who spoke by phone to PDP stakeholders commended the governor for giving him the opportunity to speak with the people and clarify the speculations surrounding his health, saying that he is sound and healthy.

While also thanking the governor for his fatherly love in his moments of trial, Uba said he hoped to come back soon to continue with his ambition and charged all PDP members to support the party at all levels to win its elections.

On the series of crises rocking the party the governor said, “Let no one deceive you that the PDP is in crises, all the national issues that tend to divide us are being tackled one after the other so we are here today to discuss as a family and strategize on how we can plan to win 2023 from bottom to top.

“We are committed to winning the election in 2023 and that is, the purpose for this meeting. It is meant to strategize on how we can win in 2023. We are running out of time. Presidential elections hold in February 25 and two weeks after this the governorship election will follow.”

The PDP gubernatorial candidate was flown to Germany due to ill health.

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