Fayose tells Ortom to leave APC

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, yesterday, tactically asked his counterpart in Benue State, Samuel Ortom, to leave the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Fayose alleged that the APC at the national level had abandoned Ortom at the time he needed them.

Ortom was a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) until December 2014 when he left to join the APC and thereafter secured the governorship ticket to win the 2015 election.

Addressing a cross-section of Benue people in Makurdi, Fayose who led a delegation of his cabinet members to condole with Ortom over the New Year killing of 73 citizens in the state, urged Ortom to move to another party.

“If you enter a vehicle and it broke down on the way and it could no longer carry you again, please come out of it and look for another vehicle so that you will certainly reach your destination.

“God has even made it very easy such that we have Toyota, Nissan and different other vehicles. So you just enter the one you like. You are a sitting governor and have the first offer of refusal,” Fayose said.

Responding, Governor Ortom said if those who were responsible for providing security for the citizens heeded the alert his administration gave earlier, may be the people killed would have been alive.