Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has openly thrown his weight behind the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, ahead of the 2023 general elections.
Ortom, who received Obi at the Government House on Sunday, praised the presidential candidate of the Labour Party for visiting the camps of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ with them.
He described Obi as the best person who can solve Nigeria’s socio-economic problems.
Ortom said, “Several presidential candidates have come here, and none of them has chosen to visit those IDP camps and look at their plight to see how they are doing and give them hope that when they win, they will bring them succour, help, and hope. For you to have chosen to visit the IDPs on a Christmas Day instead of celebrating with your family, for me as a Christian, I say God will bless you and your aspirations. My prayer is that God will bless your aspiration to be the president of this country.
“Because I have seen capacity, faith, and hope, and I have seen someone who can bring the required equity, justice, and fairness that I have been pursuing since I became governor in 2015. If I were not in PDP, I would have been following you all over the place to canvass and vote for you,” he stated.
Ortom, at another event on Sunday, also charged Nigerians to arm themselves with their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) to enable them to vote for credible leaders in the 2023 general elections. He backed the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS), the technology that will be used for the accreditation and authentication of voters come 2023.
Ortom stated that the country was going through pains, hardship, and economic and security woes because those who were elected to lead the country at various levels have failed to leave up to their responsibility.
