The battle for the soul of Benue APC has reached a nervous stage as the camp of the embattled former governor is shifting from procedural debate to blackmailing Barr Omale Omale. They tried to use surrogates in Omale's Apa LGC to dig up his past influence on the party with little or no impact and have perfected plans to plant spurious narrative that Gov Samuel Ortom is sponsoring Omale to destabilise APC in Benue and that Fmr Gov Almakura is pushing huge sums of money to Omale to whittle down Akume's capacity to challenge him in the North Central bid for national chairman. The minister's camp appears to be in shred of ideas as they earlier began another campaign for vice presidential seat for their master knowing that the state chairmanship bid is over and lost.