National Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Iyorchia Ayu, has appealed to Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State to join the party’s campaign train.
Ayu made this appeal during the party’s presidential campaign rally in Makurdi, Benue State capital.
Ayu said Ortom joining PDP would pave the way for the party’s victory during the presidential election.
Ortom is one of the G-5 governors opposed to Ayu’s continued stay in office as the party’s national chairman. He has teamed up with the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike; his counterparts namely Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu), and Seyi Makinde (Oyo) states in waging a war against Ayu and the PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, over the power configuration in the party.
Their grievance is that both Atiku and Ayo hail from the northern part of the country, a development they insist is not only unfair, but unacceptable to them.
In fact, all the five governors have since shunned the PDP presidential campaign rallies.
But Ayu said: “I am appealing to my younger brother, Governor Ortom to come back and join us so that we will fight to rescue Nigeria.
“Governor Ortom has nowhere to go; his only house is the PDP and anytime that he comes, we shall be more than happy to receive him and all the PDP governors.”
He is part of a group known as the Integrity Group, agitating for fairness, equity and justice.
