Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue State, has called for his compatriots to support Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), in the next 2023 election.
He believes Obi can save Nigeria from its challenges, and if he weren’t in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), he would have campaigned for the LP candidate.
This was revealed on Sunday during Peter Obi’s courtesy visit to the State Capital, Makurdi, where he spent Christmas with the State’s Internally Displaced Persons (PWDs).
“Several presidential candidates have come here, and none of them has 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,” he said.