Benue 2027: Ortom dismisses report of plot to replace Aondoakaa with Akutah

From Scholastica Hir, Makurdi
Immediate past Governor of Benue State and leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Chief Samuel Ortom, has dismissed as false and misleading reports alleging a plot to replace the party’s 2027 governorship candidate, Chief Michael Aondoakaa, SAN, with the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council, Dr Pius Akutah.
Ortom, in a statement signed by his Media Assistant, Paul Terhide, and issued to newsmen on Thursday, described the report circulating on social media as “a deliberate distortion of the facts” designed to create confusion within the PDP and among members of the public.
He explained that he, alongside the Senate M...