Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom apologises to Nigerians for supporting President Buhari in 2015
On Friday Jan. 18th, Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom apologised to
Nigerians and the people of the state for supporting the election of
President Buhari in 2015.
Ortom stated this during his campaign tour of Wanune, in the Tarka
Local Government Area of the state, the governor said that he was
following the footstep of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who had
apologised to Nigerians.
He explained that he was doing same because the President Buhari-led
administration had not only allegedly failed to live up to expectations
but also condoned the atrocities of Fulani herdsmen across the country.
“All complaints for the arrest and prosecution of leaders of Fulani
groups that sponsored the killing of our people in the state and
destruction of property fell on deaf ears.” According to him, while
Buhari’s kinsmen, the late Presidents Shehu Shagari and Umaru Yar’adua,
appointed several Tiv people as ministers in their cabinets, the
President had allegedly appointed none, in spite of the fact that the
ethnic group which voted massively for him in 2015 was estimated to be
the fourth largest in the country.
The governor further alleged that the Buhari administration had
brought more hardship on Nigerians and people of the state in different
ways, pointing out that Nigerians could not afford another four years of
his leadership that would further plunge them into more crises. He,
therefore, urged the people to support his re-election as Governor and
that of the presidential candidate of the PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, as
President, in the forthcoming general elections.