A former Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has said he never hated the late former President Muhammadu Buhari.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday, Ortom said he only criticised his government for not doing enough to address the security challenges in his state at the time.
While stating that he doesn’t hate any Fulani man, the former governor defended himself, saying he had to speak out to protect his people.
Orton said: “I didn’t hate Buhari, I didn’t hate his government, I didn’t hate any Fulani man. All I was standing for was that I was elected to provide security and provide for the welfare of my own people.
“I was just doing my job, and I did accuse the last government for not doing enough to curb the security challenges that we had.
“I couldn’t just watch and continue to bury people, and I had to voice out but I did not stop at that. My government was able to provide a solution that, in our thought, we felt would solve this problem.”
He blamed the Buhari administration for the insecurity problem still rocking Benue State, asserting that it would have been a thing of the past if the previous administration had cooperated with him and adopted the solution he proposed to end it.
According to him, there is no such thing as a herders-farmers crisis in Nigeria, instead, the intruding herders storm villages to kill, destroy farms, rape women, and commit other atrocities.