Governor Ortom: “I Have Forgiven President Buhari For Attempting To Twist Events, History

By Akinwale Kasali

With less than Five days to the expiration of his tenure as the Executive Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom has said that he has forgiven President Muhammadu Buhari for blaming his administration for the incessant killings in the State.

Governor Ortom made this assertion while responding to questions on Arise Television’s ‘The Morning Show’.

It would be recalled Ortom had constantly criticised the Presidency for blaming his administration for the killings in the state.

He described the attempts by the President to blame his Government for the situation as “futile attempts to twist events and history”.

Few days to the expiration of his administration, Buhari had apologised to aggrieved Nigerians, who were not pleased with his Administration to forgive him.

He said, “When you don’t forgive, it means God too will not forgive. Me, as a student of the Bible and as a born-again Christian, I have forgiven President Muhammadu Buhari.”

Ortom expressed optimism for better performance from the administration of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, in the state and the nation at large.

“We hope that the incoming administration will provide support, help, security, economic development, and peace for our people.”

“We have suffered for eight years.”

He, however, advised Buhari not to exit Nigeria but stay back to work with Tinubu’s administration  to elevate the State and Nation from “bottom to top”

“He doesn’t need to go to the Niger Republic. He should stay here (in Nigeria) with us. All of us should work with the incoming administration and by the grace of God, we shall go from bottom to top,” he added.