Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has apologised to Nigerians over his slur comment on the Fulani race.
Gatekeepers News reports that Ortom had on Sunday, alleged that his people are being killed and brutalised by Fulanis in a bid to frustrate his administration.
“To hell with Atiku and anyone supporting him. They should go and tell him. You want me to be a slave to Fulani. It’s better I die. Anybody supporting Atiku is an enemy,” he had said while hosting aggrieved governors of the PDP, under the umbrella of ‘G-5 Governors’ comprising Nyesom Wike (Rivers); Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia); Seyi Makinde (Oyo) and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu) at the Government House in Makurdi.
However, on Wednesday, when the G-5 governors visited Bauchi State governor, Bala Mohammed, at the Ramat House, Ortom said he was sorry to all who felt offended by his comments.
Asked by reporters after their meeting in Bauchi if he still stands by his comments, Ortom said that what he said was not what he meant, pointing out that he was after the peace of the country and not overheating the polity in the nation.
“I want to apologize to Nigerians who might have felt offended by my recent statement where I was quoted that I will not support a Fulani man becoming Nigeria’s president, I never meant it that way. I want to say that, that was not what I meant when I was captured; but all the same, I know that it would amount to a logical fallacy if people have taken it the way I did, but I want to say to those who are so offended by my remarks, I am very sorry, I didn’t mean that,” he said.
