The Owukpa Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, stakeholders meeting on Ogbadibo chairmanship zoning called at the instance of the state governor, Dr Samuel Ortom’s intervention in the zoning crisis, has again, ended in deadlock on Monday.
Governor Ortom had recently constituted a committee to look into the crisis that has rocked the Council chairmanship zoning following petitions received from Ado, Ogbadibo, Otukpo and Ohimini, both local governments from Benue Zone C (Idoma).
In Ogbadibo, the chairmanship was zoned to Owukpa according to the existing zoning structure in the Council among Otukpa, Owukpa and Orokam. Then in Owukpa, going further, there is existing zoning structure between the two districts (Ehaje and Itabono) that make up Owukpa community.
From the available zoning history in Owukpa, it is now the turn of Itabono as the past council chairman from Owukpa was Hon Clement Agada and he is from Ehaje district where the current transition chairman comes from. But Hon…
Source: Leadership Newspaper
