Dr. Stephen Hwande, a PDP governorship aspirant in Benue State, has said that the incumbent Governor, Dr. Samuel Ortom, has not justified the confidence reposed in him by the elect0rate in 2015. He said that Ortom, who defected from the APC to the PDP last week, had taken the state backward and impoverished its residents. “Ortom has nothing to show for the massive debts he will be leaving behind in 2019,” Hwande, a Consultant Gynaecologist, said. The aspirant said he was in the race to redeem the image of his immediate community, Nongov, where Ortom hails from. He said that the rural communities were worse hit by Ortom’s non-performance, regretting that it was still impossible to connect one rural community with another because of the lack of access roads.

Source: Punch July 30, 2018 12:56 UTC