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Benue PDP crisis deepens, as group asks Suswam to resign

The former governor had at a party stakeholders meeting held in Makurdi within the week announced that he had disbanded the group and promised to replace it with another group to be known as caucus members of the party with its members to cut across the state.

The decision of the former governor to disband the G14 may not be unconnected with the crisis of supremacy between him and his successor, Samuel Ortom, over who controls the party in the state which started during the ward congress.

Since Ortom left office in 2023, he has assumed the co-chairman of the G14.

Responding to Suswam’s announcement, the chairman of G14, Laha Dzever, said the group is a voluntary, non-statutory body functioning in the PDP, aimed to complement the work of the statutory organs of the party towards fostering unity, harmony and its continual growth.

In a statement issued on Saturday and signed by Dzever, and entitled ‘G-14 Remains Intact and Committed to PDP’ read, “G14, by its nature and formative history, is not in the ownership of any individual and thus cannot be so disbanded as Senator Suswam claimed to have done.