Benue state governor Samuel Ortom has declared his support for the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, ahead of the 2023 general elections.
Governor Ortom described Obi as the best person who can solve Nigeria’s socioeconomic problems.
On Christmas Day, Ortom praised the presidential candidate of the Labour Party for visiting the camps of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ with them.
Ortom said, “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,” he added.
Ortom has been a regular critic of President Muhammadu Buhari’s All Progressives Congress government.
He said Nigerians were very sorry for electing Buhari and the APC in 2015, considering the level of insecurity and biting economic hardship in the country.