Benue: Gemade to take over APC leadership

Se. Barnabas Gemade

There are strong indications that former National Chairman and  Board of Trustees member of the  Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP ),  Chief Barnabas Gemade,  who just decamped into the All Progressives Congress ( APC ), may be set 4 on take over the party's leadership from Senate Minority Leader, Sen. George Akume.
This move is not unconnected to Akume's disagreement with the national executive council of the party over his handling of party affairs and also the recent primaries in the state which has caused a lot of bad blood amongst party members.
The national executive council had directed that the Governorship ticket of the party

Sen.  George Akume

by given to Hon. Emmanuel Jime,  who was agreed by the remaining four contestants as their concensus candidate, to Akume's disapproval and thus has threatened to dump the party and also expose some dirty deals within the party.
However an insider who has hinted the league, said "the party is not scared of loosing Akume, because the man is more of a liability than asset and so his absence won't be felt". He further added that the party had already prepared Sen.  Barnabas Gemade to take his place even at the senate as minority leader and state party leader, even before the series of events and crisis instigated by Akume.
The source which also claims that the party is bent on replacing the minority leader with Gemade due to the former ' s mental health and public display of immaturity.  According to him,  the party has promised to release medical records of senator Akume's mental treatment in Germany as proof of his instability.
The party is also believed to be more comfortable with Gemade's candour and carriage as he is believed to be more responsible and orderly in his behaviour.
Meanwhile feelers from the state have it that the governirship candidate of the party is yet shrouded in mystery as the claimed declaration by Dr. Samuel Ortom was only a mere road show which has been attributed to the national Exco rejection of his candidacy for Jime.