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Nobody Pushed Out Gov Ortom – Oshiomhole

Adams Oshiomhole

National chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole has said that nobody has pushed out the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom.

Reacting to the announcement by Governor today, Monday that he is no longer with the APC as he had been given ‘red card’ by those he did not name, Oshiomhole said that Ortom had always told him that he would not leave the party unless he was pushed out.

“Governor Ortom had told me severally that he will not leave the APC unless he was pushed out and I know that we have not pushed him out.”

Governor Ortom had said today, at the banquet hall of the Government House in Makurdi, the state capital at the swearing in the newly appointed Special Adviser on Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Jerome Torshimbe: “as for party, I’ve been given the red card and I’m now outside the pitch.”

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The governor was quoted by his Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase,  as saying: “So, if I have been given the red card and I’m standing outside, that means I’m a free man.”