Browsing: Samuel Ortom

The PDP in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Wednesday in Abuja called on Acting President Yemi Osinbajo to immediately order the EFCC to unfreeze the accounts

Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara, the Chairman of NGF, spoke with State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday in Abuja.

The police authority in Benue on Wednesday withdrew from the state House of Assembly complex to end a period of blockade, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.

I wrote the article before the Jos massacres, before the Catholic Bishops statement, before the break up of All Progressives Congress, before Governor Samuel Ortom’s defection and before the siege on the Senate leadership. In the said article, I was drawing attention to the possibility that President Muhammadu Buhari could win the 2019 elections

Soyinka, who spoke at the launch of his latest interventions series, Interventions VIII, titled: “Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?: Gani’s Unfinished Business,” said he maintains the same position on all those who defected from the APC to the PDP

Secondus, who spoke at the 81st National Executive Committee meeting of the party, told the team of defectors to the party, led by Saraki and the Governors of Benue, Sokoto and Kwara States – Samuel Ortom, Aminu Tambuwal and Abdulfatah Ahmed – that the bold steps they took would not be in vain.

The Peoples Democratic Party on Thursday formally welcomed home Senate President, Bukola Saraki; Governor of Sokoto, Aminu Tambuwal; Samuel Ortom of Benue, former Kano state governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso; Nigeria’s former High Commissioner to South Africa, Ahmed Ibeto and Senator Dino Melaye as they attended the party’s National Executive Committee meeting in Abuja.

Ortom said this on Wednesday when he spoke with newsmen after a statewide broadcast

In a brief speech when they met Ortom at the Government House, Makurdi, Secondus described the impeachment plot initiated by eight members of the Benue State legislature as “an act of illegality” and urged Nigerians to rise against it

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the meeting, which commenced at about 9.48pm, was attended by about 16 out of the current 21 APC governors, while those absent were represented by their deputies

Oshiomhole said this after a meeting of the leadership of the APC and senators elected on the platform of the party with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja

The governor made his position known at a news conference in Sokoto

Of course, he also has very powerful Abuja-based political adversaries like the former Governor of the state, George Akume now a Senator, and others who want him out of office.  Samuel Ortom is thus caught between a moral dilemma and the reality of political survival.

The defection of the Governor was relayed in a terse statement signed by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Communication, Dr Muyideen Akorede in Ilorin on Tuesday.

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has condemned what he termed the awkward political development in Benue State where some lawmakers, aided and abetted by the Nigeria Police Force, came together to illegally occupy the Benue State House of Assembly and serve impeachment notice to Governor Samuel Ortom.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has deplored the purported service of impeachment notice on Benue Governor, Dr Samuel Ortom, by eight members of the House of Assembly.

Leadership of the National Assembly has condemned impeachment move against Benue governor, Samuel Ortom, by eight members of the House of Assembly, saying it was desecration of legislative sanctity.

Dr. Stephen Hwande, a PDP governorship aspirant in Benue, has said that the incumbent Governor, Dr. Samuel Ortom, has not justified the confidence reposed on him by the electorate in 2015.

Adams Oshiomhole, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has said the party was relieved that Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State defected to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party.

The party made the commendation in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday as it welcomed the governor “back to the party”.