Ortom meets Tambuwal, says arrogance fuelling PDP crisis

The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on Sunday, received his counterpart from Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal with the aim to resolve the internal crisis rocking the party.

Tambuwal is the Director-General of the campaign committee of the party’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

Governor Ortom, one of the G5 governors known as the Integrity Group insisted that the leadership of the party had failed.

While stating that the meeting was at the instance of his Sokoto counterpart, he said arrogance of the party leadership aggravated the crisis in the party.

Ortom said, “This meeting is at his (Tambuwal) instance. We have discussed quite a number of issues including the division in the PDP; the G-5 which I am a member. He is here principally to see how we can team up and work for together as a party.

“I have told him he is welcomed, we are together, we are members of the PDP. But I have said that the leaderdhip of this party have failed to take advantage of the challenges of the party and make it stronger.

“Right from when we held our convention, instead of the leadership deploying its internal dispute resolution mechanism to look at the grievances that arose as a result of the dispute that arose from the primary, no matter how stupid they were, they have failed to do this.

“Rather, it is arrogance, nonchalant attitude; and nobody has cared to reach out to us even when we voiced out that things were not going on well.”