President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, April 18 lampooned Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State over his failed senatorial bid.
Buhari mocked Ortom for failing to win his election to go to the Senate, claiming that the people of the state rejected him because of his alleged woeful performance in eight years, Vanguard reported on Wednesday, April 19.
The president also accused the outgoing governor 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 thing.
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.
Benue state Governor, Samuel Ortom, has been berated for calling for the forthcoming national population and housing census.
The governor was blasted by the Save Nigeria Movement who described his call as highly insensitive, unreasonable and antithetical to Nigeria’s development.
The governor had recently noted that a large number of Benue people were still in the Internally Displaced Persons IDP camps and may not eligible to participate in the exercise because they are not in their localities.
He therefore called for a postponement of the exercise scheduled to commence May 3.
