2023: Anybody supporting Atiku, Fulani man is an enemy of Benue – Ortom

Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, has vowed never to back his party presidential bid, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar due to the killings of Benue people by armed Fulani herders.

Ortom, the PDP chieftain said Atiku is a Fulani man and noted that anybody supporting him is an enemy of the Benue people.

Ortom disclosed this during he hosted his colleagues from Rivers, Oyo, Abia, and Enugu states in Makurdi, the state capital.

The governor vowed never to support a Fulani man in becoming Nigeria’s president.

He said: “To hell with Atiku and anyone supporting him. They should go and tell him. You want me to be a slave for a Fulani. It’s better I die.

“Anybody supporting Atiku is an enemy of Benue. My people are being killed and you want me to be quiet.

“My tenure ends in May and you can do whatever you want if you think you have the powers. I have written my will. I will never support a Fulani man to become president.”

Ortom, Nyesom Wike, Seyi Makinde, and Okezie Ikpeazu have been against the PDP’s leadership following Atiku’s emergence as the party’s presidential candidate.

The governors also demanded that Iyorchia Ayu resigns as PDP’s National Chairman.

They stressed that the North can’t produce the party’s presidential candidate and National Chairman.

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