House of Representatives member, Francis Ottah Agbo, (Benue, PDP), has denied negotiating with a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) aspirant to be the deputy governor of Benue State in 2023.
A statement by his media aide, Andrew Agbese, on Thursday said the lawmaker is working towards an Idoma governor for Benue State come 2023.
“The lawmaker is working hard with other critical stakeholders to present a unified Idoma Aspirant to go into the PDP primaries if the zone is unable to produce a PDP guber candidate of Idoma extraction by consensus!
“The Benue State Governor, his deputy and all the guber aspirants fully know Dr. Ottah Agbo is fully working for the emergence of a Benue Governor of Idoma origin and by God’s grace and our collective effort, it will come to pass!
“Rep Ottah Agbo is closer to the Deputy Governor of Benue State and Chief Patrick Ogbu, two Idoma PDP Aspirants for the Governor than Hon Terwase Orbunde or any other Aspirants of Tiv extraction but because it does not serve the nebulous cause of those bent on pulling Hon Ottah Agbo down, they did not bring that to the fore in their Facebook post.
“In addition to that, the lawmaker is also a friend to many aspirants of Tiv extraction, including Chief Mike Kase Aondokaa, Chile Igbawua, Mr. Terver Akase, Herman Hembe etc. Why the hatchet men singled out Hon Orbunde in their Facebook claptrap beats one’s imagination,” the statement added.
