Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has lamented that the people of the State spend quality time drinking beer and still blame him for not adding value to their lives.
Gatekeepers News reports that the Governor expressed disappointment that despite the progress recorded by his administration, all he gets in return from Benue people are insults, blackmail and intimidation, especially when he recently acquired a lot of landed properties across the length and breadth of Makurdi metropolis.
Ortom expressed his feelings when he commissioned the mega Pentecostal Church, Remnant Christian Network Embassy in Makurdi, the state capital.
In his words: “If you go round Makurdi Town, our people start drinking beer from 9 am and some from there, they will go to sleep, and they come back and insult the governor for not helping them to add value to their lives.
“Every new building you see in Benue State, they say that it’s Samuel Ortom that is building; he is stealing and doing that.
“In politics, people say a lot of things: blackmail, insults and intimidation, you face all sorts of things no matter what you do with the people, they always find something around.
“In 2017, I concluded that I will never contest the second term as allowed by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and because of the insults I received from Benue people and how I was vilified, even some members of the church joined forces with those who do not know God.
“I was pained in my heart, and I said God, you brought me, and I said I was not going to contest in the 2019 election, and that night, God rebuked me and told me I am not done with you.
“I brought you. I have not rejected you when people reject you; I am still with you.
“I fasted for three months, I did a case study on the life of Moses in the book of Exodus in the Bible, and at the end, God told me, don’t be like Moses who could not get to the Promise Land, have faith in me, and I will see you to the end.”
