Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), national chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, has said that the Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Senator George Akume would soon rejoined his former party, PDP soon.
Akume ruled Benue State on the platform of PDP from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007.
He left PDP for Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in 2011 and with the merger that birthed APC in 2013, became one of the party’s chieftains.
Speaking at the defection rally of the APC lawmaker representing Gboko/Tarka Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Dr. John Dyeg to PDP in Gboko, Ayu said, “your lost son, Senator George Akume is coming back to the PDP. I am saying this based on what I know. I earlier prophesied that Akume would hold the broom and he did.
‘Now I am prophesying that he will come back to the PDP. When he comes back, do not reject him but make sure you rehabilitate him because where he is now, he may not be thinking straight. He is like a lost son, a prodigal son. Only rehabilitate him and make sure he thinks properly.”
In his speech at the occasion, Dyegeh said he took the decision to dump the APC for the PDP because Ayu is his uncle.
He also said the performance of Governor Samuel Ortom across the state, especially in Gboko Local Government Area equally motivated him to join the PDP.
