The Benue State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reaffirmed its backing of any decision taken by the State Governor, Samuel Ortom.
The party, in a statement by the state Publicity Secretary, Bemgba Iortyom, express confidence on Ortom’s stand on issues both at the national and local levels of the polity.
The PDP stated that the governors leadership quality and resilience had kept the state thriving under the most challenging circumstances.
The party also expresses immense pride and confidence in the leadership vision of Governor Ortom which has seen him emerge a “leading light on the quest for a new Nigeria under an order of equity, fairness and justice to all segments of the country.”
The PDP said: “Benue PDP backs Governor Ortom’s stand on all issues which are in the best interests of the common good of Nigerian citizens, in Benue State and at the federal level.
The party stands in oneness of purpose with the people of the state as together, we begin 2023, a year in which we have a rare opportunity to make the leadership choices that will preserve our collective security won through the blood of countless martyrs, as well as retain the wealth and dignity of our land and its peoples stolen by alien invaders and their sponsors in high places of national leadership.”
Speaking further, the ruling party in Benue State lamented the misrule and mismanagement of the commonwealth of Nigeria by the All Progressives Congress (APC) on a scale of genocidal proportions, economically, socio-culturally and security wise.
According to the party, “The victims have been rendered destitute and unable to afford the basic needs of life; food, clothing, shelter, medicare, education for the young, by a cabal which holds sway at Aso Rock and has visited a scorched-earth agenda on the economy through unprecedented corruption.
We equally empathise with all the victims of the national catastrophe called APC mis-rule which ranks as the greatest disaster to have befallen Nigeria since independence, by far more adverse in impact than even the civil war.”
The Benue PDP urged people of the state to be vigilant against repeating the miscalculation of 2015 which gifted power to those undeserving of it at the national level.
