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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has clarified that he has no issue with the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr Iyorchia Ayu as has been speculated.<\/p>\n

There has been speculation that the governor, who is the chairman of the party\u2019s zoning committee ahead of the 2023 general election, was not on good terms with the PDP chairman.<\/p>\n

But Ortom, while speaking during a meeting with all his political appointees from 14 local government areas of the state, said those disseminating such stories will be disappointed.<\/p>\n

According to him, \u201cI have no single problem with our national chairman, Senator Ayu, our leader, Senator David Mark, Senators Abba Moro, Gabriel Suswam, Orker Jev or any leader of the party.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are consulting with one another without rancour. So there is no truth whatsoever in such rumours\u201d.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Nigeria<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has clarified that he has no issue with the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr Iyorchia Ayu as has been speculated. There has been speculation that the governor, who is the chairman of the party\u2019s zoning committee ahead of the 2023 general election, was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":62793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,5810,254,379,65],"class_list":["post-62794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-iyorchia-ayu","tag-nigeria","tag-ortom","tag-pdp"],"yoast_head":"\nGov Ortom clears air on alleged rift with PDP National Chair, Iyorchia Ayu - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has clarified that he has no issue with the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Part ...\" \/>\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\/gov-ortom-clears-air-on-alleged-rift-with-pdp-national-chair-iyorchia-ayu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gov Ortom clears air on alleged rift with PDP National Chair, Iyorchia Ayu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has clarified that he has no issue with the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Part ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/gov-ortom-clears-air-on-alleged-rift-with-pdp-national-chair-iyorchia-ayu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-04-08T15:30:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-04-08T16:42:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/img-625065ee24f35.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/gov-ortom-clears-air-on-alleged-rift-with-pdp-national-chair-iyorchia-ayu#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/gov-ortom-clears-air-on-alleged-rift-with-pdp-national-chair-iyorchia-ayu\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Gov Ortom clears air on alleged rift with PDP National Chair, Iyorchia Ayu\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-04-08T15:30:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-04-08T16:42:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/gov-ortom-clears-air-on-alleged-rift-with-pdp-national-chair-iyorchia-ayu\"},\"wordCount\":161,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/gov-ortom-clears-air-on-alleged-rift-with-pdp-national-chair-iyorchia-ayu#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/img-625065ee24f35.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Iyorchia Ayu\",\"Nigeria\",\"Ortom\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/gov-ortom-clears-air-on-alleged-rift-with-pdp-national-chair-iyorchia-ayu#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/gov-ortom-clears-air-on-alleged-rift-with-pdp-national-chair-iyorchia-ayu\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/gov-ortom-clears-air-on-alleged-rift-with-pdp-national-chair-iyorchia-ayu\",\"name\":\"Gov Ortom clears air on alleged rift with PDP National Chair, Iyorchia Ayu - 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