Young Alhaji,Prof David Iornem,Former Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, Mzenda Iho, Ambassador Mike Gbasha, Indya Garuba, former senate minority leader, Prof Daniel Saror, Arch Joe Ikyagba and others dump APC.

Recent developments may have proved those who accused the senate minority leader, Senator George Akume of running the All Progressive Congress, APC chapter in Benue State as a personal estate, as most of the party’s chieftains in the state have started leaving the party in droves.
The development is said to have put him in dilemma as he is said to be confused on the next line of action to take since those deserting the party were those who nurtured it to maturity in the state, even as he is said to be deeply worried that this is coming at a time he is considering a return to the senate for the third time.
While some believe his only option is to return to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP under whose flag he was elected twice as governor between 1999 and 2007 and later to the senate, sources close to him however said that that would be the last thing the senator will contemplate as it will not only make him lose his position in the upper legislative chamber but political relevance.
So far, those who have left the party include the multimillionaire politician, Alhaji Usman Abubakar, who gave the senate president, David Mark a run for his votes in 2007, third republic senator and the campaign director of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN gubernatorial candidate in 2011, Prof David Iornem, former member of the House of Representatives and former speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, Mzenda
Iho, Ambassador Mike Gbasha, Indya Garuba, former senate minority leader, Prof Daniel Saror, Arch Joe Ikyagba, among others.
Their grouse border on alleged imposition of candidates by Akume at the recent ward, local government and states congresses conducted by the party in the state.
Meanwhile Iornem, Iho and Saror are thinking of joining the PDP.

Culled from.Nigerian Pilot.