BREAKING: APC Has Given Me ‘Red Card,’ I’m No Longer Its Member – Ortom

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, on Monday, said his membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is in doubt as he has “been given red card” by the ruling party.

Speaking during the investiture of Jerome Torshimbe as the Special Adviser to the Bureau of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in the state, Governor Ortom said he is currently a “free man” and awaits another party to woo him.

He said, “As for party, I have been given red card and I’m outside the pitch. So, if I have been given red card and I’m standing outside, I’m a free man.

“So, I don’t know what will happen next; but I’m waiting. If ones approach me, then I will tell the Benue people that I’m joining another football club.

“I’m a child of destiny and it’s only God that will decide what I will be,” Ortom said.

Speaking further on the challenges facing Benue and whether or not the people of the state should defend themselves from prowling Fulani herdsmen, the governor said:

“Many people have been wondering that though we dedicated the state to God, we are still facing challenges; but all these challenges that we see today, we shall see them no more.

“All that we are required to do is not to begin to be wayward in our conduct, but to move to the righteous side of God. Once we do that, things will work out for our good.

“Looking at what is happening to us, sometimes I’m tempted to think that we are dying like people who do not have God. But we must choose the path of walking with God, obeying and serving him.

“If we do that and ensure that His values get into our hearts and we work with him, development will be inevitable. Let us work and encourage those things that can develop us.

“We need to come together and not allow party or ethnicity to divide us.”