2019: Ortom’s Candidacy Worst Political Decision By PDP – Benue group

A coalition of civil society groups in Benue State, has warned electorate against voting for Governor Samuel Ortom in next year’s election.

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Ortom is the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), having won the governorship primary held a few days ago.
The organization,  under the aegis of  Coalition of Civil Society for Peace and Good Governance, insisted that the party’s settlement for Governor Ortom as its candidate was not only laughable but also retrogressive.

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President of the group, Asongo Vincent,who stated this during a press conference in Makurdi, yesterday, insisted that the nomination of the Benue State governor by the PDP as it flag-bearer was the worst political decision of the  century, saying the party would pay dearly for it.
Reading a prepared text before newsmen, he asked: “How can a party the people have come to trust so much  as the  hope for the common man in Benue descend so low to nominate such a liability with so much political, moral and spiritual baggage?
“Who did this to Benue State? He is governor who does not really care about the killing of his  people but decamped to PDP just to weep political sentiments having failed to  deliver dividends of democracy.

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“If Governor Ortoms truly cares, why is our roads this bad? If he cares ,where are the schools? If he cares, why has he not paid the backlog of salaries? If Ortom truly cares, where are the hospitals? “
He added: “When Benue people were being killed by herdsmen, the governor did not visit some of the communities until after two months?
“For us in the coalition,we are already collating signatures from concerning groups and in matters of days,  we shall be matching on the street of all the three senatorial districts to remind Benue people of the many sins of Governor Ortom, who has consistently used the name of Most high to short-change    our people.

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“We shall be reminding the Benue that Ortom is the real miyette Allah.”
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