The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in Benue State, Professor Dennis Ityavyar, has debunked insinuation making the rounds in some quarters that he has defected to the All Progressives Party (APC).
Professor, Ityavyar, who was the immediate past commissioner for Education spoke in a telephone conversation on Friday in Makurdi, where he said, even though favoured by zoning, but allegedly affected by committee handling consensus where they unilaterally picked Benue Speaker Hon.Titus Uba to represent the fourteen Tiv Local Government Speaking areas to contest the party primaries with Benson Abounu scheduled to take later this month, he still remains a PDP member and has no intensions of leaving the party.
Professor Ityavyar described the allegations as un substantiated claims and urged his supporters to discountenance the speculation.
The choice of Uba and Abounu by Governor Ortom may have triggered internal crisis in Benue PDP, that has led to the defection of strong members, the ,immediate past Chief of Staff Mr. Terwase Orbunde and Dr Paul 0rhii to the APC in recent times.
Inside spources reveal that many other PDP stakeholders are just buying time to see to the end of the party primaries before leaving the umbrella party for which
The explained that the Governor may have delt a big blow to the progress of the PDP in Benue state, stating that “nowhere on earth could an individual took unilaterally decision ” insisting if anyone is not comfortable, let them find their ways.
