Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has taken a swipe at members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, especially the ‘beer-drinking’ ones among them, who, he said, sleep all day.
In a statement issued, on Saturday, by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Nathaniel Ikyur, to the governor, said the comment was directed at members of the APC, in Benue State.
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Governor Ortom was said to have made the remark, on Friday, when commissioning the new building of RCN Embassy Church, in Makurdi, the Benue state capital.
Reacting to the backlash that trailed the utterance, the governor’s media aide said he was speaking to “a few” persons who “have conditioned their minds to malign him.
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“We wish to state categorically that the news, especially the caption is a completely mischievous misrepresentation and an attempt to ridicule the person of the governor,” the statement reads.
Ikyur’s statement also said that Governor Ortom was clear that most Benue people know and do appreciate the great developmental strides he is doing for them. The statement also said that the governor, however, regretted that some of those who insult, blackmail, or castigate him unnecessarily, specifically are a few and from the opposition APC who sit in beer parlours for long hours and have conditioned their minds to malign him no matter how much he has done.
