Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has said the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, would be a good choice for Nigerians in the 2023 election.
Ortom stated this on Wednesday when he received the former Governor of Anambra State in his office in Makurdi, the state capital.
The governor commended the LP presidential candidate for coming to the state again to express support for flood victims in the North Central state.
Ortom said Obi has the capacity to rescue Nigeria from economic and security challenges, describing him as one of the finest presidential candidates for the 2023 elections.
He said: “If Nigeria needs to make a choice, Peter Obi one of the finest candidates that we have in this country.
In terms of education, in terms of character, in terms of performance, in terms of reaching out, in terms of being a pan-Nigerian, in terms of industrialization, and passion to ensure that our country is liberated from where we are; out of insecurity to security, and out of economic woes to economic vibrancy and out of lack to adequate social life, you have the capacity to make things work.”
The governor advised Nigerians not to consider party or ethnicity in the forthcoming presidential election but the capacity of a candidate to address the country’s problems.
Ortom said once God decides on who to be Nigeria’s next President, nobody or structure can stop such a person.
“From your antecedents, you have the capacity to be the next President. If I were God, I would have said everything but I am not God.
If I were not in PDP, Peter Obi would have been my candidate but I am in PDP, that is my handicap but my prayers are with you,” he told Obi.
Recall that Obi said the ‘deal’ he has with some aggrieved PDP governors including Ortom is to achieve a better Nigeria.
