Former Minister of Interior, Abba Moro has advised both National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun and Benue State Governor, Governor Samuel Ortom not to welcome the politicians who defected to their party recently in the state with open arms.

Speaking with newsmen in Otukpo yesterday, the former minister described the decampees as ‘Food is Ready’ politicians, saying “they are like the Egyptians that you see today and you shall see them no more tomorrow.”

He also emphasised that the forthcoming rerun election of Benue South senatorial district was about the Idoma people, adding that only the people can decide who their senator will be.

Moro said people of the zone were ready with their PVCs to vote in Senator David Mark again, whom, according to him, had given the zone very good representation in the last 16 years.

He, therefore, ​warned that “externalising political competition the way the rerun election is being carried out by the All Progressives Party (APC) is a direct invitation to political tension and violence, the responsibility of which the APC in Benue State and its government must take.”
The former minister stated that “let no one be in doubt that this Benue South Senatorial District rerun election will be determined only by the votes of the people of the senatorial district,” whom he said, are not in a hurry to dump the PDP and jump into the party in power.

“The people are resolved to resist any external infiltration that will truncate the democratic expression of the political will of the people. We wish to make it clear that the people of Benue South Senatorial District are determined to remote and revalidate the votes and mandates and ensure they are freely given to the PDP and its candidate, Senator David Mark.”