PDP Will Take Over Power In 2023 Due To Buhari’s Failure- Ortom

Benue State governor, Mr Samuel Ortom, has fancied a return of the Peoples Democratic Party to power in 2023 as a result of what he described as the unprecedented failure of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Ortom stated this on Monday while speaking with journalists in Markudi, a text of which was made available to THE WHISTLER.

Smarting from the success of the People’s Democratic Party’s National Convention, Ortom said Buhari’s failure only created a clear opportunity to seize power from the All Progressives Congress, APC, in 2023

He said, “We (PDP) are determined to take over leadership of this country, come 2023 because of the failure of APC led government.

“They are being deceitful and not being able to secure our land. They have rather succeeded in destroying our economy, our security, our social life and everything you can think of in this country.

“I have been privileged to read the history of Nigeria and that of those who have been destroying us including the military. Usually, we say that the worst democratic government is better than the military government,” he said.

Ortom, who has been having running battle with the Buhari administration and angrily left the APC said, “But for the purpose of APC-led government, I want to say that the worst military government we have had in Nigeria is better than this particular government led by APC.

“I have never seen anything like this; people who don’t want you to tell them the truth or advise them, try to twist things and tell the world that you are against them,” he said.

The governor, however, admonished Nigerians to join hands with the opposition PDP to be able to rescue the country.

“We urge Nigerians to team up with us (PDP) to dismantle this current APC government that has a record of the worst corruption in our nation. They have destroyed everything,” Ortom said.

Ortom alleged that the farm settlement been canvassed by the present regime was aimed at populating the nation with foreign Fulani, adding that Benue would continue to be opposed to the federal government’s gimmick at taking over Benue land.

“There is another trick again that the presidency is trying to bring. Before they came with a water bill aimed to annex our river, but I opposed it. Now they are talking of farm settlement so that they can bring Fulani from Niger, Sierra Leone, Mali, Chad and Mauritania, terrorists Fulani to take over our land. I’m saying capital no, it will not work.

“I don’t have problem with our indigenous Fulani who have been cohabiting with us but for those terrorist Fulani, it will not work,” Ortom fumed.