Nigeria is Collapsing, Benue Governor Ortom Tells Buhari in Birthday Message

Governor of Benue State in Nigeria’s North-Central Benue State, Samuel Ortom, on Saturday again drew Buhari’s attention to the fact that Nigeria is collapsing due to the activities of terrorists.

Ortom said the president is a grandfather who should understand that people are dying daily unnecessarily in the hands of terrorists.

In a message signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Nathaniel Ikyur to congratulate Buhari on his 79th birthday, the governor was quoted as saying that the insecurity affecting citizens was not what the president promised when he assumed office in 2015.

According to the statement, the governor, who said he loves Buhari, urged him to take urgent action to secure the country before he leaves office.

Ortom pleaded with the president to use his 79th birthday, not as a member of a political party or any religious bias, but as a grandfather and a nationalist, to address the obvious imbalances in the nation now before he hands over power in 2023.

“I join your family, friends, political associates, and all Nigerians to congratulate you on the occasion of your 79th birthday,” he said.

“To some, the president is a father, to others, grandfather while yet to others, he is a great grandfather who should understand that Nigeria at the moment is collapsing due to the activities of terrorists who have continued to destroy the very foundation of the unity of this country.”

The governor said the security architecture in the country has collapsed and the citizens now live in perpetual fear as strangers in their own country is not acceptable.

“Daily, people are slaughtered like animals either on their farms, at home, or roasted to death while travelling from one destination to another with video clips showing the faces of the killers. Yet, no one has been arrested.

“The roads have become booby traps where the citizenry are scared to travel on, for the fear that they may be kidnapped for ransom or in some cases killed outrightly. It is an open secret that no one is safe in this country any longer.”

The governor said the security architecture in the country has collapsed and the citizens now live in fear.

“The president should not listen to sycophants who may not be telling him the truth that all is well,” he said.

“All is not well with Nigeria right now, Mr. President. You must therefore take urgent steps now to pull the nation back from the precipice before it is too late.”

The governor urged every citizen not to sit on the fence but join hands with governments at all levels as patriots to assist in redeeming the nation from the hands of bloodthirsty terrorists so that Nigeria can gradually move into political stability and economic prosperity for all.

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