{"id":33276,"date":"2020-12-09T17:27:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T17:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=33276"},"modified":"2020-12-09T17:27:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T17:27:21","slug":"benue-why-gov-ortom-cant-return-to-apc-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-why-gov-ortom-cant-return-to-apc-wike","title":{"rendered":"Benue: Why Gov Ortom can\u2019t  return to APC \u2013 Wike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has said his counterpart from Benue State, Samuel Ortom won\u2019t return to the All Progressives Congress, APC.<\/p>\n<p>Wike explained that Ortom won\u2019t return to APC because he almost died during his time with the party.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke on Tuesday while commissioning road projects completed by Ortom\u2019s administration in Makurdi and Guma Local Government Areas.<\/p>\n<p>The governor insisted that Ortom will remain with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wike: \u201cOne of the reasons I came today is to dispel the rumours that Ortom is going back. We will continue to stand together though we might be denied what is due us and intimidated but it will come to an end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, in this country, there is total insecurity, and people are saying Governor Ortom is going back to a party where he nearly died.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo man digs his own grave. God brought him out of the wilderness and some people are saying that he is coming back. Coming back to where?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has said his counterpart from Benue State, Samuel Ortom won\u2019t return to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Wike explained that Ortom won\u2019t return to APC because he almost died during his time with the party. He spoke on Tuesday while commissioning road projects completed by Ortom\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":33275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,34,331,254,379,454],"class_list":["post-33276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-apc","tag-benue","tag-nigeria","tag-ortom","tag-wike"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Benue: Why Gov Ortom can\u2019t return to APC \u2013 Wike - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-why-gov-ortom-cant-return-to-apc-wike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Benue: Why Gov Ortom can\u2019t return to APC \u2013 Wike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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