Akume May be on his way back to the PDP

Sen. George Akume

Indications are rife that the senate minority leader Senator George Akume,  may be on his way back to the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP ),  due to recent happenings in the party.
According to sources close to the Senator who is the kneaded of the All Progressives Congress ( APC ), in the state, his grouse with his party stems from the decision of the party's national leadership led by Sen. Bola Tinubu, to revert the impositions which he made during the latest party primaries.
The national executive council of the party had in recent times reverted certain nominations made by the Benue state chapter of the party, where candidates were imposed without proper or no elections at all.
Amongst this is the latest which has provoked the former governor's decision, is the submission of the party's governorship ticket to the concensus candidate of the five legal aspirants of the party, Rt. Hon. Emmanuel Jime against the wish of Akume who preferred a PDP decampee, Dr. Samuel Ortom who was allegedly submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), without participating in or holding any elections as stipulated by the party’s constitution.
The party was said to have yesterday returned the ticket back to Jime after a closed door meeting, with national stakeholders of the party, where Akume was also directed to also relay the message of Ortom's rejection to him.
According to our source who is an aide to the National Chairman of the party, the meeting had in attendance,  Chief Oyegun,  Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,  Governor Rauf Aregbesola, Miss Banire and all the five aggrieved governorship aspirants from the state who willingly withdrew for Jime and openly expressed their undesire to work for the party if Ortom be impressed on them.
However Akume who jetted out of Abuja yesterday to Lagos was said to have been sighted entering the house of the national leader of the party in order to see Tinubu so as to upturn the decision and save face.
Meanwhile he has instructed the PDP decampee governorship aspirant to go ahead with plans for a formal launch of the governorship campaign while he seeks Tinubu's face. He has been quoted to be threatening to move back to the PDP if his place to Tinubu and Oyegun.