President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to Governor Samuel Ortom’s inability to win his election to the Senate.
In his reaction on Tuesday, April 18, Buhari claimed that the people of the state rejected Ortom because of his alleged woeful performance in eight years.
Buhari also accused the outgoing governor of Benue State of frustrating all peaceful efforts made towards solving the security situation in the state, adding that instead of embracing the government efforts, the governor was busy politicising everything.
President Buhari in a statement by his senior special assistant on media and publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said that the Benue people would heave a sigh of relief that the governor is exiting office, while a more responsible governor will be mounting the saddle.
Ortom had recently noted that a large number of Benue people were still in the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps and may not be eligible to participate in the exercise because they are not in their localities. Thus, he, therefore, called for a postponement of the exercise.
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