{"id":60666,"date":"2022-11-19T22:05:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T22:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=60666"},"modified":"2022-11-19T22:05:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T22:05:45","slug":"why-i-a-northern-governor-support-southern-presidency-governor-ortom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=60666","title":{"rendered":"Why I, a northern governor, support southern presidency – Governor Ortom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, says he supports the South to produce the\u00a0 President in 2023, because of the principles of\u00a0 justice, equity and fairness.<\/p>\n

According to him, the right position is for a Southerner to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari after eight years of Presidency from the north.<\/p>\n

Ortom’s party’s candidate in the coming election is former Vice President Atiku Abubakar,\u00a0 against whom he has drawn a political battle line<\/p>\n

Governor Ortom spoke Saturday, November 19th, 2022 at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium during the flag off of the Peoples Democratic Party campaign in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.<\/p>\n

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The PDP G5 governors of Oyo, Benue, Rivers, Abia, & Enugu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ortom is the first governor from the North to back a southern presidenct.<\/p>\n

Addressing a mammoth crowd of PDP supporters, Ortom said,\u00a0 \u201cNigerians, for the sake of equity, fairness, and justice, we expect that after eight years of President Buhari, the next President should go to the South irrespective of political affiliation. That is the right thing to do. We are Nigerians and we must ensure that all of us work together.\u201d<\/p>\n

He maintained that Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State was the right candidate to have succeeded President Buhari but \u201cenemies of progress\u201d ensured Wike did not win the party\u2019s presidential primary.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour son from Rivers State contested, and it was said that he lost but some of us believed that he was the right person to unite, bring us together and ensure justice, fairness, and equity for Nigerians,\u201d Ortom told the teeming supporters.<\/p>\n

Governor Ortom also insisted that Wike was denied the running mate ticket to the PDP presidential candidate by those who do not want the best for the country.<\/p>\n

He however charged the party\u2019s supporters in Rivers state to continue to work with Governor Wike to ensure victory for PDP candidates in Rivers State.<\/p>\n

“Today we are here to flag-off the Rivers State PDP campaign team and with what I have seen here, I want to congratulate the incoming Governor of Rivers State 2023.<\/p>\n

“I want us to work together as a team and by the grace of God in 2023 we are going to redeem Nigeria to the path of security, to the path of prosperity, to the path of social life and everybody will be happy,” Ortom stated<\/p>\n

The Governor emphasised that \u201cI want Rivers State people to work with our Governor, Governor Nyesom Wike and at the end of the day, just like the G-5, we will decide what we are going to do because Nigeria today is in turmoil and it is only when we do the best that can help us out of our challenges in terms of security, economy, social life and help us redeem our image,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Governor Ortom described Governor Wike “as a great patriot, a pan Nigerian and a man who believes in equity, fairness and justice” adding that he has shown exemplary leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, says he supports the South to produce the\u00a0 President in 2023, because of the principles of\u00a0 justice, equity and fairness. According to him, the right position is for a Southerner to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari after eight years of Presidency from the north. Ortom’s party’s candidate in the coming election […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":60667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[55,820,830],"class_list":["post-60666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-politics","tag-atiku","tag-ortom","tag-south"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}