January 03, (THEWILL) – The Benue state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has saluted the people of the state on the occasion of the 2023 new year celebration.
“Our great party also reaffirms confidence in its leadership, under His Excellency, Governor Samuel Ortom and his stand on issues both at the national and local levels of the polity.”
PDP hailed the quality and resilience of the ‘Benue Spirit’, which has endured and thrived under the most challenging circumstances.
In a statement issued by the State Secretary of the party, Bemgba Iortyom, the PDP, particularly empathises with victims of the misrule and mismanagement of the commonwealth of Nigeria by the All Progressives Congress (APC), on a scale of genocidal proportions, economically, socioculturally and security-wise.
In Benue State, the victims have been chased out from their ancestral homes by hordes of murderous, land-grabbing terrorists to be marooned in IDP camps.
The victims have been rendered destitute and unable to afford the basic needs of life, food, clothing, shelter, medicare, and education for the young, by a cabal, which holds sway at Aso Rock and has visited a scorched-earth agenda on the economy through unprecedented corruption.
“We equally empathise with all the victims of the national catastrophe called APC misrule, which ranks as the greatest disaster to have befallen Nigeria since independence, by far, more adverse in impact than even the civil war.
“It is in light of this that our great party under the leadership of Governor Samuel Ortom in Benue State, charges the people to be vigilant against repeating the miscalculation of 2015, which gifted power to those undeserving of it at the national level.”
According to the statement, this is the time to right the wrongs of 2015 and the time to sanitise the corridors of power and offices of public trust by keeping out what it described as demagogues and charlatans vying for election without any track record at previous duty posts or credibility of character.
The party expresses immense pride and confidence in the leadership vision of Governor Ortom, which has seen him emerge as a leading light on the quest for a new Nigeria under an order of equity, fairness and justice to all segments of the country.
Benue PDP backs Governor Ortom’s stand on all issues which it said are in the best interests of the common good of Nigerian citizens and Benue State in particular.
The statement added, “PDP stand in oneness with the people of the state as we begin 2023, a year in which they have a rare opportunity to make the leadership choices that will preserve the collective security won through the blood of countless martyrs, as well as retain the wealth and dignity of the land and its people.”
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