Samuel Ortom, the governor of Benue State, on Wednesday, demanded a public apology from PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar for his outburst directed at him and the state’s residents.
The governor also cautioned Atiku not to believe that his Fulani ethnicity would be enough to make him president.
Ortom stated this while addressing youths from the Jemgbagh axis, which includes the Gboko, Buruku, and Tarka local government districts, who had joined him in his agitations.
During a recent interactive forum hosted by the Arewa Consultative Forum in Kaduna, the former vice president accused the governor of racial profiling of Fulanis.
Atiku had also in his condolence message said, “When our people are well integrated into communities where they live, work, pay taxes and raise their children, they’d be obligated to reciprocate the love and acceptance”
But Ortom asserted that Atiku’s tribesmen had stolen animals from his farm, denying that he had singled out Fulani…
