The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has come out to fully explain the reason why he and Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and some other State Governors in Nigeria including the Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State had met with Peoples Democratic Party presidential (PDP) candidate, Atiku Abubakar, All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, Mr Peter Obi, Labour Party presidential (LP) candidate and former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, in London.
Ortom had also revealed that he and his team had gone to meet with the Nigerian leaders in London on Thursday to discuss Nigeria’s survival ahead of next year’s general election.
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Ortom, who had also spoken to some of the newsmen at the Port Harcourt International Airport on Friday when he returned to Nigeria alongside Wike and Ikpeazu, insisted that the country is on drip and oxygen.
He said: “We are looking at how we can harness ideas and put ourselves together to ensure that we get out of the present challenge we are in Nigeria today.
“From top to bottom, consider what has happened from 2015 and where we are today. So, what we are doing is a concern that we have for our country, Nigeria.
“This is beyond partisan politics. We are looking at how we can come together and find a way of ensuring that Nigeria survives. Nigeria is on a drip, Nigeria is on oxygen, and it is about how we can get out of this.
“We have individually also had earlier commitments in Europe even if consultations are still going on because nothing concrete has been decided. The consultation is going on and will continue to go on. We are still going to meet here.”
In another report, a youth group identified as Tiv Youth Council Worldwide has warned Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom, his Rivers State counterpart Nyesom Wike and some other aggrieved members of the Peoples democratic party (PDP) against their plot to remove Senator Iyorchai Ayu as chairman of the party.
The youths said the governors and their associates’ insistence on the removal of Ayu as the only ground for peace talks between the PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar and Wike was in bad faith
In a swift reaction, special adviser to governor Ortom on media and publicity Terver Akase asserted that there is no group called Tiv Youth Council Worldwide, saying it only exists in the imagination of those behind it.