Benue people, good at insulting me while drinking at beer parlour – Ortom

The Executive governor of Benue State, Dr. Samuel Ortom has disclosed that he gets insulted by some citizens who drinks from morning till evening at beer parlour.

He lamented that despite his achievements in office in the last six years as governor of Benue State, it does not concern some of the people who habitually drinks beer from morning till evening only to start insulting him.

The governor stated this while commissioning the Mega Pentecostal Church, Remnant Christian Network Embassy in Makurdi, the State capital on Friday, adding that he has received a lot of criticism, blackmail and intimidation in recent times.

He disclosed that he recovered a lot of landed properties across the length and breadth of Makurdi metropolis and warned against persecuting people he called “anointed leaders” like him.

“If you go round Makurdi Town, our people start drinking beer from 9 am and some from there, they will go to sleep, and they come back and insult the governor for not helping them to add value to their lives.

“Every new building that you see in Benue State, they say that it’s Samuel Ortom that is building; he is stealing and doing that.

“In politics, people say a lot of things: blackmail, insults and intimidation, you face all sorts of things no matter what you do with the people, they always find something around.

Ortom said, he declined re-contesting for second tenure in 2019, though the Constitution allows as a result of vilification, regretting that some church members joined hands with ungodly people to also insult him, but God rebuked him.

According to Ortom, God told him, that he wasn’t with him yet, saying, “I brought you, I have not rejected you when people reject you, I am still with you”.

Ortom disclosed that he fasted for three months while he did a case study of Moses in Bible and God told him to re-contest, which he did and won.