Former President Goodluck Jonathan has welcomed Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, back to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
The ex-president said this in a statement issued by his media aide Reno Omokri on Wednesday.
Recall that earlier today, Ortom announced his defection from the ruling All Progressives Congress to the PDP.
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The governor made the announcement during a meeting with local government chairmen and councilors, at the government House in Makurdi, the state capital.
13 chairmen and about 276 Councillors joined Ortom to dump the APC.
Reacting, Omokri assured Benue people that the PDP will “protect and progress” them, adding that there will no more be mass burial in the state.
Let me, on behalf of former President @GEJonathan, welcome Benue and her people back to the PDP. We will protect and progress you. No more will you observe mass burials in Benue. With the PDP, you will observe mass movement from poverty to prosperity and from sadness to gladness!
— Reno Omokri (@renoomokri) July 25, 2018
Ortom served as Director of Operations of the PDP gubernatorial campaign in Benue State in 2007 and Director of Administration and Logistics of the Goodluck/Sambo Presidential Campaign Organisation in 2011.
He was also the PDP National Auditor, before his appointment as minister in July 2011.
Recall that on Tuesday, 52 federal lawmakers from the Senate and House of Representatives defected from the APC, with about 95 percent joining the opposition PDP.