The former governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam has announced his resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).<\/span><\/p>\n Suswam\u2019s resignation announcement was contained in a letter addressed to the Chairman of the Mbagber Council Ward in Logo Local Government Area of Benue state.<\/span><\/p>\n Dated February 4, 2026, the former governor, in the letter said he was dumping the party over the long-standing crisis rocking PDP leadership and its members.<\/span><\/p>\n He further noted that he considers his resignation from the PDP as the right thing to do at the moment.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI consider it honourable and necessary to step aside while wishing the party well should it one day find the courage and consensus to resolve its long-standing issues\u201d, Suswam said.<\/span><\/p>\n While, Suswam did not disclose the political party he would be joining following his resignation from the PDP, he has, over time been seen identifying with leaders and key members of the coalition party, the African Democratic Congress (ADC).<\/span><\/p>\n Sources within the political space have also stated that it\u2019s most likely that the former governor would be pitching a tent with the ADC ahead of the 2027 general elections across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The former governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam has announced his resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Suswam\u2019s resignation announcement was contained in a letter addressed to the Chairman of the Mbagber Council Ward in Logo Local Government Area of Benue state. Dated February 4, 2026, the former governor, in the letter said he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":241046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[231,365,3140,251,1658,2750],"class_list":["post-241045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-adc","tag-benue-state","tag-gabriel-suswam","tag-pdp","tag-peoples-democratic-party","tag-politics-in-nigeria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_6093.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}