Ortom warns PDP against ignoring G-5

In the aftermath of the crisis rocking the party, the national leadership of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, may have called the bluff and moved on with campaigns ahead of the 2023 general election without five aggrieved governors but they would be doing so at their own peril.

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, who sounded the warning on Tuesday,   reiterated the call on the leadership of the party to deploy internal mechanism to resolve the wrangling within the party.

Speaking during the inauguration of state campaign council and management team at the party’s secretariat in Makurdi, the governor said failure to do so may mar PDP’s chances in the 2023 general polls.

He also announced the donation of 25 Hilux vehicles by his Rivers State counterpart, Governor Nyesom Wike, to the state campaign council.

It would be recalled that Ortom, Wike, their Oyo, Abia and Enugu counterparts, Seyi Makinde, Okezie Ikpeazu and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, had been at loggerheads with the leadership of the party since the presidential primary that produced Atiku as the party’s presidential candidate.

At a point, some party members urged Atiku to move on since the governors who are now referred to as the G-5 have refused to shift ground on the sack of the national chairman, Iyorcha Ayu.