The Legislative leader of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, says he is prepared to forfeit his senatorial desire in the Public Gathering races this Saturday, assuming it will guarantee the triumph of the official applicant of Work Party, Peter Obi.
In the Benue North-West senatorial district, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) member Ortom is running for office.
After months of refusing to support the PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, whose emergence in May 2022 was viewed as unfair by several high-ranking party members, his January endorsement of Obi came.
While addressing members of the Igbo community in the state on Monday, the governor of Benue reiterated his support for the former governor of Anambra State.
“It’s not even that I’m running for office for me. Yes, Benue State residents purchased the form for me. I’ve circled; He stated, “They have accepted that they will vote for me.”
He said, to loud applause from the crowd, “But if I’m to sacrifice my senatorial ambition for Peter Obi to win, so shall it be.”
He continued, “I know that the Igbo are the only group of people who are connected in this world.”
This is your chance to say that the president is an Igbo man from the South-East.
Ortom said that he accommodates everyone because he identified with those who believed in Nigeria’s unity and cooperation.
Therefore, we should not pass up this chance that God himself is providing.
I have been informed by youth, my own people, stakeholders here, traditional rulers, and party members across party lines. Obi’s issue has nothing to do with the APC, PDP, SDP, or any other party. It concerns Nigeria.
He told the crowd that they have the population and advised them to praise God for “what is unfolding.”
He said that Obi are an ethnically diverse species.
“That is why, when I hear prominent Igbo personalities scold Peter Obi for running in the election, I wonder if you haven’t been complaining that you’ve been left out since the war?
The opportunity has presented itself today, yet you continue to whine. What do you desire? What are you trying to find?
“Peter Obi is being mentioned across the entire nation—north, south, east, and west—and you can hear some saying, “We don’t want it.” Haba! Those individuals ought to be rejected.
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