2023: On southern presidency I stand – Gov Ortom declares

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has insisted that he is in support of a Nigerian president of southern extraction.

According to Ortom, president Buhari should hand over to a southerner in 2023 to balance the political equation in the country.

Ortom made this known when Governor Nyesom Wike made the declaration to contest for presidency during a consultative meeting with stakeholders of the Benue chapter of the PDP at the Government House in Makurdi on Sunday.

Wike had said, “To remove APC from power, I’m the person who can tell them enough is enough. We must take this power and I’m ready to take it for PDP. God is with us that’s why APC keeps failing everyday.

“I’m declaring it (presidential ambition) for the first time in Benue. I’m going to run for election,” Wike said.
He warned stakeholders not to sell their votes, but give it to him, adding that some of the PDP presidential aspirants were only after the power in order for personal gains.

Earlier, Governor Samuel Ortom who hosted Wike prayed that God will grant him his desire to rule the country.
Ortom recalled that his Rivers counterpart had never turned his back on Benue, especially in caring for the teeming displaced people occasioned by herders’ invasions in some parts of the state.
“On southern presidency I stand,” Ortom said.