Governor Ortom of Benue State, a member of G5 Governors, has asked Nigerians to support Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, in the 2023 general election.
Obi, according to Ortom, is the ideal candidate to help Nigeria overcome its problems.
He stated this while praising Obi for spending Christmas Day touring the camps of the Internally Displaced People, or IDPs, in the State.
G5 Governors is a group of five powerful Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors who have been demanding the resignation of Iyorichia Ayu, the party’s national chairperson. They have sworn not to back Atiku Abubakar, the party’s presidential candiddate until the chairman has resigned.
The governors are Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia, Samuel Ortom of Benue, Seyi Makinde of Oyo, Ifeanyi Ugwanyi of Enugu, and Nyesom Wike of Rivers (who is leading the group).
Governor Ortom prayed for God to favor Obi’s presidential aspirations while speaking in Makurdi.
According to Ortom: “Several presidential candidates have come here, and none of them have chosen to visit those IDPs 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 that you should be 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.
“But, because I’m in PDP, I’m telling Nigerians that this man can help deliver this country from its challenges.”
