Benue: 500 APC members defect to PDP in Ohimini, as Eric Adokwu emerges flag bearer

Benue: 500 APC members defect to PDP in Ohimini, as Eric Adokwu emerges flag bearer 


By Yemi Itodo


No fewer than 500 supporters of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), including some of the executive members of the party, both present and past, have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ohimini LGA of Benue State. 


This is coming on the heels of the emergence of Arc. Eric Adokwu as the standard bearer of the PDP in the June 3 2017 local government poll in Ohimini.


The decamping ceremony was done Yesterday, at Onyagede council ward, when the PDP candidate, Adokwu, visited the area, in continuation of his wards tour.


Speaking on behalf of the decamping APC members, Hon. Ameh, said the emergence of Eric Adokwu as PDP candidate spurred their defection, adding that, it would amount to breaching the law of nature, if they worked against a man whom has given so much to the community. 


While eulogising the personality of Arc. Eric Adokwu and his contributions to the development of Onyagede and Ohimini in general, Hon. Ameh assured the PDP of landslide victory at the forthcoming chairmanship election. 


Receiving the decamping members, Arc. Eric Adokwu, thanked the people for their wise decision, stressing that, their gestures would be reciprocated through more infrastructural developments, after his victory on the 3rd June. 


He, therefore, advised the people and the general public, to go out and get registered in the ongoing Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) exercise by INEC, to enable them vote for PDP, come June 3rd, 2017.


Onyagede is a home country of Hon. Sule Audu, former Deputy Speaker of Benue House of Assembly and State Chairman of PDP.

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ORTOM DECLARES EMERGENCY ON SALARY PAYMENT

ORTOM DECLARES EMERGENCY ON SALARY PAYMENT

By Tahav Agerzua

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, today declared a state of emergency on salary payment.

Governor Ortom made the announcement at a meeting with Labour leaders at the New Banquet Hall of the Benue Peoples House in Makurdi.

He also set up a committee to work out details of its implementation.
The committee has the Deputy Governor, Engr. Benson Abounu as chairman and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Mr Matthew Uyina, as Secretary.
Other members are Commissioners of Finance, Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, their colleagues in the Ministries of Health and Information as well as Advisers on Labour, Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Development Cooperation, Rural Development and Cooperatives.

Labour leaders on the committee are Comrade Godwin Anya, State Chairman, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Comrade Terungwa Igbe, President, Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, Comrade Philip Ter Nongu, State Chairman, Joint Councils one, two and three, and Comrade Ordue Tartenger, Trade Union Congress chairman.

Governor Ortom stated that the implications of the declaration included prioritization of salary payment as well as the exploration of every means of obtaining funds to clear arrears including borrowing.

He said the committee's terms of reference would include pruning of the State wage bill, fishing out ghost workers and perpetrators of fraud with regard to the issue.