Concentrate on Benue development, Northern group tells Ortom, Minda Leaders

The Northern Awareness Movement (NAM) has asked Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, to concentrate his energy on the development of the state, deliver his party in 2023 and ensure prompt payment of salaries.

The northern group also condemned a press conference held by the Minda Leaders of thoughts of Benue State where they purportedly withdrew their support for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

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Both governor Ortom and the Minder Leaders had verbally attacked Atiku over an alleged statement credited to him, saying the enemies of the North and Nigeria at large had carefully twisted Atiku’s comment to mean that he supports rogue elements and approves of their cowardly act of wreaking havoc and mayhem on innocent well-meaning Nigerians.

Reacting to the development through a statement signed by the Chairman of the NAM, Muhammed Inuwa, made available to newsmen in Abuja, the group said Atiku’s statement had laid credence and further cemented his Pan-Nigerian credentials.

“The Northern Awareness Movement wishes to state unequivocally that the press conference by the Minda Leaders of thoughts is provocative joke taken too far.

“The NAM is not unaware of the failures of Governor Ortom to pay salaries and lacking of any legacy project of his own in Benue state. We are also not unaware of the seemingly loss of popularity by Dr. Samuel Ortom in Benue state on a daily basis as a result of failure in office.

“We urge Governor Ortom and his group of elders to sheath their swords and concentrate on developing Benue State and also delivering Ortom at the polls in the coming 2023 general election.”

According to Inuwa, Atiku sees everyone as Nigerians first, regardless of tongue, tribe and religion hence the careful and intentional use of the phrase “our people.”