The Presidency has cautioned Gov.
Samuel Ortom of Benue to desist from basing his campaign for re-election on
falsehoods concerning President Muhammadu Buhari, advising him to focus on the
dire issues confronting the state.
Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior
Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, gave the warning in
a statement in Abuja on Sunday.
The presidential aide observed
that “Ortom’s campaign is clearly one designed to stir division and hatred, and
to divert the people’s attention from his inability to pay staff salaries and
pensions for several months.
“It has been noted that the
governor has been visiting churches in the state where he falsely tells
congregations about President Buhari’s so-called plans to Islamise Benue State.
“This nonsense has formed the
basis of his campaign, because he has nothing to offer Benue people’’.
Shehu also noted that the
allegations coming from Ortom were “particularly unfair, when one considers how
much support the governor received from the Federal Government, which supported
his grazing laws as a means to end the farmer-herder crises that have plagued
the state.
“If not for President Buhari’s insistence that
the governor be given a chance to effect the law, he would have faced
resistance from different sources and found it difficult to implement.
“While advising Ortom to
immediately stop his dubious attacks on President Buhari, the Federal
Government calls on the people of Benue State to not fall for Ortom’s deception
and allow themselves to be hoodwinked by such a negative campaign.
“They should instead, ask him why
he has refused to pay staff salaries and pensions for months, and what he did
with the funding from the excess crude account which should ideally have gone
towards addressing such payments,” the statement read in part. (NAN)
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