Garba Shehu, APC Cannot Tell Me Where To Campaign – Samuel Ortom

Governor Samuel Ortom has said that the recent statement directed to belittle him, credited to the Senior Special Assistant, SSA, to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, who accused him of hate speech was the terrible work of the cabal who have taken over the presidency and running the country into a deep hole.

Garba Shehu had alleged that Governor Ortom, in his campaigns ahead of the 2019 general elections, was flaunting a hate campaign in churches and making Benue people rise against President Buhari alleging that the president was on a mission to Islamize the country.

Ortom replied, “I read the statement, I’m sure it’s not coming from Mr. President but it is coming from the presidency. I’m also sure that statement from Garba Shehu is coming from the cabal that the wife of the President is complaining about. It cannot be from the President.

“In my campaigns I have never insulted President Buhari, I have never made any hate speech against him at any given time. If I talk of Miyetti Allah claiming responsibility for the killings in Benue state, it came from them and it was before the media and everybody knew about it.

“If I talk about the Fulani Nationality Movement, FUNAM, who did a press conference in Kano and proclaimed that the killings in Benue was a continuation of 1804 jihad, it didn’t come from me, it came from them.
“I actually called for the arrest of these people because they were making hate speeches and displaying impunity over this country and I also reported them to security agencies, I expected that these people should have been arrested, I was just repeating that.

“Garba Shehu cannot tell me where I’ll go and do my campaigns. If I’m done with the churches I will also go to the Mosque. I respect the Muslims for who they are and I respect the churches because that is background I come from, I am a Christian.

“Can Garba Shehu come and tell me where to campaign? He doesn’t have the right, he is from APC and I am of the PDP and I’m campaigning to win election for my party and my presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar because I believe he will not keep a cabal in the villa.