Gatekeepers News reports that Ortom, who is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), dumped the presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar, to vote Obi on Saturday.
He is also part of the G-5 – the five-member group of PDP governors who are at loggerheads with the national leadership of the party.
Ortom voted for Obi at his polling unit in Tse-Ortom, Mzondu ward, Guma LGA of the state.
The governor, who is contesting for Benue north-west senatorial seat, had earlier said he was ready to sacrifice his senatorial bid for the victory of the LP candidate.
Ortom had said, “For me, it’s not even that I’m contesting an election. Yes, the form was bought for me by the people of Benue State. I’ve gone round, they have accepted that they will vote me.
“But if I’m to sacrifice my senatorial ambition for Peter Obi to win, so shall it be. I know that if [any group of] people are connected in this world, they are the Igbo. This is the opportunity you have to say that an Igbo man from the South-East is president.”
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