The newly elected Benue State Working Committee members of the Peoples Democratic Party were left stranded on Friday when they arrived at the party secretariat along Otukpo Road to assume office, only to find it locked.
Three weeks ago, the immediate past governor of the state, Samuel Ortom, through his media aide, Terver Akase, stated that he had provided one of his buildings located in the High-Level area of Makurdi to the party. This followed claims by the caretaker committee members that they had been forced out of the party secretariat.
The original secretariat was donated to the party by former governor Gabriel Suswam. However, Suswam’s media aide, Mede Bartholomew, dismissed the claim that the caretaker committee had been evicted, saying there was no evidence to suggest such an occurrence.
When the new party leadership arrived at the old secretariat on Friday to receive handover notes from the caretaker committee, they found…