I’m willing to give up my Senate dream for Peter Obi to win – Ortom

After months of refusing to support Atiku Abubakar, the PDP’s nominee, he endorsed the presidential candidature of the Labour Party in January.

In order to guarantee the victory of the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom says he is willing to give up his desire to run for the Senate in this Saturday’s elections for the National Assembly.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Ortom is running for the Benue North-West senate seat.

After months of refusing to back Atiku Abubakar, the PDP presidential candidate, whose emergence in May 2022 was regarded by numerous high-ranking party members as unfair, he finally endorsed Obi in January.

When speaking to members of the Igbo community in the state on Monday, the governor of Benue reaffirmed his support for the former governor of Anambra State.

“For me, the issue isn’t even that I’m running for office. Indeed, the citizens of Benue State purchased the form for me. I’ve visited them, and they have agreed to vote for me,” he stated.

To raucous applause from the audience, he declared, “But if I’m to sacrifice my senatorial aspirations for Peter Obi to win, so shall it be.”

I am aware that the Igbo are the most interconnected people in the world, he continued. Now is your chance to claim that the president is an Igbo man from the South-East.

Ortom stated that he accommodates everyone since he identified with people who supported Nigeria’s unity and cooperative efforts.

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So let’s not blow this chance that God himself is giving us. Young people, members of my own community, traditional leaders, and party members from different parties have all told me this. Obi’s situation has nothing to do with the APC, PDP, SDP, or any other party. It concerns Nigeria.

He acknowledged that they had a population and encouraged people to give thanks to God for “what is happening.”

He defined the Obi as an ethnically diverse species.

“That is why, when I hear some well-known Igbo personalities criticising Peter Obi for running in the election, I ask myself, ‘Aren’t you the ones who have been complaining about being ignored ever since the war?

“Now is the chance, yet you’re still grumbling. What do you desire? What are you trying to find?

The entire nation, including the North, South, East, and West, is chanting “Peter Obi,” but you can also hear some people shouting, “We don’t want it. Haba! Such folks ought to be shunned.