Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom says time has come for Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to become President of Nigeria.
He spoke on Tuesday at the Benue Government House, Makurdi where he received, on a courtesy call, the North Central Women Unite for Atiku, led by its President, Dorcas Din.
The Governor noted that when God permits, nobody objects, stressing that it was time for Atiku to lead Nigeria, as all things were working towards his success.
Ortom stated that Atiku has the capacity to provide purposeful leadership for Nigerians as well as dethrone economic sabotage and imminent collapse of institutions under the present administration.
He noted that it was hypocritical and deceitful for the APC-led federal government to demonize opposition members by sending anti-graft agencies after them, only for the same people to become “saints” whenever they join the APC.
Gov. Ortom, who is the North Central Coordinator of Atiku-Obi Presidential Campaign Organisation, tasked the women on prayers and works that would ensure the victory of PDP in all elections next year.
He acknowledged the commitment of the women to the Atiku project, saying their powerful delegation was an indication that the North Central is poised to ensure massive votes for PDP in the coming elections.
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While assuring the women of the support of his administration to ensure resounding victory for Atiku, himself and other PDP candidates, Ortom stated that when women are empowered, a nation benefits.
National President of the North Central Women Unite for Atiku, Dorcas Din, said the women had fared badly in the past three years under the APC administration at the federal level and would not want to remain like that for the next four years.
She stated that they were all out to help ‘change the change’ by mobilising the women folk to vote out the APC government.
