Benue Does Not Feel Your Government, Gov Ortom Tells Buhari

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Benue Gov. Samuel Ortom

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State on Thursday accused President Muhammadu Buhari of neglecting his state in the scheme of things so much that the citizens have not felt the impact of his government.

Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue State

 

 

Ortom made the accusation against the president in his remark shortly after signing the state’s amended grazing bill into law at the government house in Makurdi.

 

 

“Mr President, Benue State is not enjoying your government that is why even your party members from APC are all coming to PDP because they are not sure of being part of your government.

 

 

“Every day, even yesterday APC members in the House of Assembly have decamped to PDP because the impact is not there. The pains are too much, the economy is in bad shape, the security is in bad shape, everything is in bad shape,” he said.

 

 

The governor also said since he had been barred from seeing the president, the only means to communicate the truth which he had told him in the past and would continue to tell him is through the media.

 He noted that the 5000 bags of rice showcased in a pyramid to indicate that the Buhari administration was making headway did not depict reality, stressing that the president has not achieved anything.

 

 

But in a swift reaction, the state Chairman-elect of APC, Comrade Austin Agada, said the allegations by the governor against President Buhari’s administration and his person could be best described as, “someone not in tune with the reality of what is on ground.”