The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, on Wednesday, said he has forgiven the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd).
Ortom disclosed this while responding to questions on Arise Television’s ‘The Morning Show’
Ortom had criticised the presidency for blaming his administration for the killings in the state.
He described the attempts by the president to blame his government for the situation as “futile attempts to twist events and history”.
The PUNCH reports Buhari had apologised to aggrieved Nigerians, who were not pleased with his administration to forgive him.
The governor, who backed his words with the Christian Holy Book, added that he has forgiven the President.
Ortom expressed optimism for better performance from the administration of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, in the state and the nation at large.
“We hope that the incoming administration will provide support, help, security, economic development, and peace for our people.”
“We have suffered for eight years.”
He, however, advised Buhari not to exit Nigeria but stay back to work with the administration of Tinubu to elevate the state and nation from “bottom to top”
“He doesn’t need to go to the Niger Republic. He should stay here (in Nigeria) with us. All of us should work with the incoming administration and by the grace of God, we shall go from bottom to top,” he added.
Source: PUNCH
In other news-Bulawayo police descend on money changers
POLICE in Bulawayo have warned members of the public to desist from illegally dealing in foreign currency as they will face the full wrath of the law.
Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube said this yesterday following the arrest of six illegal foreign currency dealers (osiphatheleni) at the corner of Leopold Takawira Avenue and Fort Street.
Ncube said the foreign currency dealers now go about flaunting point of sale machines (swipe machines) issued to them by some local banks.”On May 22 at about 0800 hours, the police were on patrol when they arrested the six suspects and a total of 11 point of sale (POS) machines (commonly known as swipe machines) which were used in foreign currency deals were seized from the suspects,” Ncube said. Learn more
