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Presidency Knocks Ortom, Declares Him Failed Politician

by Jonathan Nda-Isaiah 
4 months ago
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The presidency has said that the governor of Benue State Samuel Ortom is a failed politician because he could not improve the condition of the state.

According to the presidential spokesman Garba Shehu in a statement yesterday in Abuja, Ortom inherited unpaid salaries and pension arrears – and rather than find a way to raise the funds to pay them, he has continued to blame the president.

Comparing Ortom’s performance with President Muhammadu who inherited a bartered economy and made it better, Shehu noted that there are two types of politicians in Nigeria today saying the first type are politicians who are leaders that offer solutions to the challenges facing the voters and the country. The second, he said is politicians who offer excuses for the challenges voters face.

The presidential spokesman said the first type brings forward policies, and implement them, to improve the lives of others, while the second type are politicians who offer excuses for the challenges voters face.

Show Us Your Legacies, Tiv Youths Tell Ortom

According to him, they avoid ideas and instead blame others for problems they have either not solved or have themselves created.

He said, “President Muhammadu Buhari is a leader. He inherited a treasury that had been emptied by successive previous administrations – and he sought and succeeded in repatriating billions of dollars of stolen funds from overseas. His administration discovered more than 500,000 bank accounts operated by Ministries, Agencies and Departments. In these accounts, the money belonging to the government was kept. Same government agencies went to the banks to borrow money kept by sister agencies at exorbitant interest rates.

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“ What is more, some of the signatories had left the service or were ‘unknown’ and so no one had access to the funds. MDAs are now compelled to use the Treasury Single Account, TSA, domiciled in the Central Bank of Nigeria.

“And the President brought forward the first and only plan to address farmer-herder clashes in 100 years, supporting states to rediscover grazing reserves and create ranching lands that have successfully reduced tensions while increasing harmony and saving lives.”

Shehu further stated that Governor Samuel Ortom, belongs to the first type of politicians. According to the presidential spokesman, he inherited unpaid salaries and pension arrears and rather than find a way to raise the funds to pay them, he has blamed the president.

He said this is a president who has not failed to pay the salary of those working for the federal government and declared the failure of states to do so “a national disaster.”

“To avert this, he had, at various times lent money to the states in excess of N1.682 trillion, and Benue, Mr Ortom’s state did not miss out on all occasions: Salary Bailout, Excess Crude Loan and Budget Support loan, each repayable in 20 years. Lagos for instance didn’t collect any of the loans,” he added.

“A few other states declined to take one or two. Mr Ortom, an office holder who collected on all occasions, currently holds the country’s longest record of unpaid salaries and pensions, has no reason, absolutely no reason, to blame President Buhari for the mess in which he put his state and its workers.

“Having first come claiming that his predecessors created the arrears, it was his business to prove that he was better by paying. Instead of doing that, he joined them! And while he runs up even further salary and pension debts on top of those he was bequeathed, instead of respecting the voters who elected him to office, he publicly attacks them in unprintable words and has raised his own thuggish militia to harass and violate them. The Governor now claims the voters wish to be ‘rescued by the PDP’ and ‘regret voting for Buhari’,” he said.

He said that it is unlikely that any voter would seriously consider it possible to be rescued by a party that would allow a politician like Governor Ortom in its ranks.

“What is certain, however, is that Nigeria has had enough of failed politicians who blame others as a diversion for their inability to improve citizens’ lives,” he added.

 

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