PRESIDENT BUHARI RECEIVES BENUE GOV 1 . President Muhammadu Buhari receives The Governor of Benue, Mr samuel Ortom at the State House in Abuja. PHOTO; SUNDAY AGHAEZE. JAN 9 2018
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Presidency warns Ortom over hate campaign against president Buhari

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The Presidency has sent warning calls to Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State to desist from basing his campaign for re-election on falsehoods concerning President Muhammadu Buhari and instead focus on the dire issues confronting the State.

In a statement Sunday the presidency said Governor 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.

” 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.

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