Group demands Ortom’s resignation as Chairman PDP zoning panel

A pro-Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on the platform of The Democrats Group (TDG), has called for the resignation of Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State as chairman of the party’s zoning committee.

The committee is charged with the responsibility to shape the party’s direction on the contentious issue of zoning.

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The group made the call in Abuja through a statement signed by its Director-General, Asiwaju Abidemmy Elegbede.

It said, while justifying the demand for Ortom’s resignation, the governor has close political relationships with some aspirants to the position of president.

While calling on the party to provide equal opportunity to all aspirants, the group in the statement said, “the Benue governor having openly expressed his position on zoning by clamouring for a Southern president, should recuse himself as the Chairman of the 37-man PDP Zoning Committee or the party leadership relieve him of his position as chairman and membership of the zoning committee.”