Quick previous Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has declared that he holds no remorse for working in opposition to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar throughout the 2023 presidential election.
The previous governor made this assertion on Monday whereas showing on Politics Right this moment, a programme aired on Channels Tv.
“I didn’t disguise it. I’ve no remorse,” he stated.
Will probably be recalled that Ortom was one of many 5 then-Peoples Democratic Celebration, PDP governors, collectively often called the G5, who publicly rejected Atiku because the occasion’s presidential candidate and threw their help behind Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Ortom dismissed options that his actions amounted to betrayal of the occasion.
“Which betrayal? Pursuing my curiosity and the curiosity of my folks? The curiosity of my folks is that you simply present what they need.
“In case you ask me, I’d describe politics as a recreation of doing what your folks need, not what I would like.
“Politics is a recreation of curiosity, and if I’ve someone working in opposition to my curiosity and the curiosity of my folks, I’ve to struggle again,” he added.
He additional argued that it was inconceivable for one more northerner, Atiku, to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari, who had served eight years in workplace.
On the latest coalition fashioned by opposition parts, Ortom acknowledged that he has no intention of leaving PDP.
He stated he was unsurprised by Atiku’s latest withdrawal from the PDP, and criticised the opposition coalition launched beneath the platform of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, which was unveiled by distinguished Benue politicians, together with David Mark and Gabriel Suswam, describing it as unsustainable.
“Individuals are free to affix any coalition that they so want, however for me, and the folks that I lead, we stay in PDP. I’m the chief of PDP in Benue State and a member of the BoT,” Ortom acknowledged.
