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Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has criticised the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), for his lethargy and failure to call Fulani herdsmen terrorising Nigerians to order.

He said Buhari is the President of Nigeria not the President of the Fulani tribe where he hails from. Ortom also noted that Buhari pledged to be the President of everybody and nobody in 2015 and therefore should serve the interest of all Nigerians.



The governor, who spoke at a press conference in Makurdi on Wednesday after his recovery from COVID-19, urged the President to act fast, adding that no Nigerian is a second class citizen or slave to the Fulani people.

At the conference monitored by The PUNCH, Ortom lambasted the Presidency for calling for the arrest of popular Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, well known as Sunday Igboho, who issued a quit notice to herdsmen accused of abductions, rape, destruction of farms, and others in the Ibarapa area of Oyo and enforced same.

The governor said the Presidency kept mum when herdsmen kill and maim Nigerians but was swift to order the arrest of persons who resisted the criminal activities of the killer herdsmen.


He said, “When I talk, I was being castigated, I was being vilified, nothing bad that was not said against me, I am this and that but the reality is here and it is not just happening in Benue State today, it is happening in the entire country.

“Why is the Federal Government being silent about these Fulani herdsmen? When will Federal Government come out and criticise and arrest herdsmen carrying AK-47? When are they going to do that? Are we second (-class) citizens in this country? Why (is) the Fulani men superior to a Tiv man? I am not their slave, a Benue man is not slave to any Fulani man in this country.

“We stand for justice, equity and fairness. Whatever is happening to a Fulani man should also happen to a Tiv man. That was why I called the Federal Government to licence me and many others to have guns, to have AK-47 too. Because if I have my AK-47 and a Fulani man is coming there, he knows that I have and he has, then we can fight each other.



“But you can’t disarm me and arm a Fulani man. This is not right, the Federal Government is biased, it is unfair. The failure in security is caused by Federal Government.”

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Ortom said perhaps the lieutenants of the President were not feeding him with accurate information on happenings in the country.

He said, “Mr President, in case you are listening to me, I want you to know that your people, Nigerians, you promised Nigerians that you will be fair to all. You said that you will be for everybody and for nobody, and now it will appear that you are for Fulani people because nothing is coming from you to give the people confidence that you are their President.

“You are the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, you are not the President of Fulani. You are the President of everybody and I owe you a duty as a stakeholder in this nation to let you know that what is going on is wrong and this has the potential of dividing this country which will not be in the interest of anyone –some of us believe in the unity of this country.”

Continuing the governor said, “Mr President, if some people are deceiving you that all is well, it is not well with us in Benue State and what I can hear from other states, it is not well with Nigeria today, you must act fast before it is late.”

https://punchng.com/herdsmen-crisis-you-are-president-of-nigeria-not-fulanis-ortom-slams-buhari/

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Please remind him

In Bubu's voice, "I'm Fulani before being a Nigerian!"

The lifeless who barely knows he exists. Fulanis should expect reprisals after this lifeless regime

Are we second (-class) citizens in this country? Why (is) the Fulani men superior to a Tiv man? I am not their slave, a Benue man is not slave to any Fulani man in this country.


Fulani terrorists believe they are sent by allah to liberate Nigeria to islam, they rely on the slaves of the same allah who sent them to achieve their objective.


It's common logic to see their apologists are the slaves to their god

Says a useless wheelbarrow governor who cannot tackle cultism and insecurity in his own state.

Buhari will go down in history as one of the worst and inept leaders that emanated from Africa...

His leadership or gerontocracy style is laced with nepotism and cronyism which is worst than the fascist regime of king Leopold on Congo.


He doesn't know the amount of bad blood he is building up for the once respected Fulani tribe, reality will dawn on that tribe when this misfit leaves the corridor of power!

Buhari is not can never be the president of south east. Niger delta and Middle belt

Buhari is president of the north and south west only.

Their is no difference between buhari and ortom.infact ortom is worst than buhari. A useless leader that use fulani as an excuse to his his failures

triple996:
Their is no difference between buhari and ortom.infact ortom is worst than buhari. A useless leader that use fulani as an excuse to his his failures

Abdul, you should be blaming buhari for the failures.

Perphas if he had solved insecurity ortom won't see avenue to hide his own failures.

So long as Benue is concerned ortom has done to sheild it from the biggest problem of fulani terrorists

Regene2020:
Abdul, you should be blaming buhari for the failures.

Perphas if he had solved insecurity ortom won't see avenue to hide his own failures.

So long as Benue is concerned ortom has done to sheild it from the biggest problem of fulani terrorists

Mike my friend, is that you
Y did you create another moniker
Did u chop ban

Talking to a living dead

Officialgarri:
Says a useless wheelbarrow governor who cannot tackle cultism and insecurity in his own state.

the useless one is the president that use 1.5 billions as a brib to shut down MNK Facebook. Don't you see the stupidest of ur president. That dead thing in Aso Rock think he can use Fulani to intimate ndi Igbo we will wipe them out nothing will happen Including you if you don't believe me Cary your cow enter our bush if come out then buhari is not jubilil

triple996:
Mike my friend, is that you Y did you create another moniker Did u chop ban

Abdul it's antibot o, it would be off by 9. pm

Nigeria will survive.

Lalasticlala.

Orton my Man anyday anytime.. You be Man

TooMuchStuff:
Orton my Man anyday anytime.. You be Man

The man like Fayose protected his people.

The only thing Buhari knows is cattle, his killer brothers and cronies he share Nigeria corruption with.Even his zombies are not in his consciousness.

Racoon:
The only thing Buhari knows is cattle, his killer brothers and cronies he share Nigeria corruption with.Even his zombies are not in his consciousness.

A good President would have done something at least visit the South West

TooMuchStuff:
Orton my Man anyday anytime.. You be Man

Nigeria is going, going almost gone.

Mynd44, I just watched the video of Gov. Ortom.