Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue, has asked the presidency to
desist from mudslinging and address issues bothering the country.
Ortom was reacting to a statement by Garba Shehu,
presidential spokesman, which said the Benue governor should not blame Buhari
for the challenges in his state.
In a statement on Wednesday, Nathaniel Ikyur, Ortom’s chief
press secretary, said the Benue governor raised several fundamental issues
“every reasonable government should be bold enough to address without qualms”
during his interview on Arise TV.
He said instead of addressing these issues, the Buhari
government resorted to mudslinging and tried to paint Ortom in a bad light.
He said it is “uncharitable and truly a betrayal of hope”
for the Buhari government “who has consistently blamed past administrations” to
now find it convenient to accuse Ortom of blaming others before him.
“The Governor decried the rate at which the sovereignty of
Nigeria is daily being compromised with the activities of armed Fulani herdsmen
that has continued to kill and sack communities across the country. The
President Buhari’s state of Katsina is badly hit with the activities of these
terrorists. It is the President’s failure to secure Nigeria that has allowed
terrorists to take over most states. This is not the making of Governor Ortom,”
the statement reads.
“For more than a year, the Governor has been shut out from
seeing the President. Is this too a lie?
“Has President
Buhari’s government not spent billions of dollars in ‘Turning Around the
Maintenance’ of the nation’s refineries without commensurate results from the
facilities? Is it Governor Ortom that stopped the President from revamping the
country’s refineries after such humongous sums were spent on it? Why did Garba
Shehu fail to see all of these but chose to gloss over them?
“It is therefore curious that Garba did not address the
issues Governor Ortom raised in the interview with AriseTV. Rather, he went
about chasing shadows, trying in vain to paint the governor in bad light. In
doing so, he turns to accuse the governor of funding a militia group. This is
the height of irresponsibility.
“Rather than take the advice Governor Ortom offers for the
collective good of the nation, Garba Shehu and those hired to insult the
Governor finds it easy to ignore the weighty issues that bother on national
security but rather go about in circles. We think the President and his
handlers will do well to take Governor Ortom seriously when he speaks than
indulging in unnecessary mudslinging.
“It is uncharitable and truly a betrayal of hope for the
President Muhammadu Buhari government who has consistently blamed past
administrations to now find it convenient to accuse Governor Ortom of blaming
others before him. This is ridiculous and has exposed the Buhari government of
being bereft of ideas and indeed empty of tackling the nation’s myriad of problems.”
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