{"id":919644,"date":"2022-01-26T09:41:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T09:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/26\/dont-blame-buhari-for-the-mess-you-put-benue-presidency-hits-ortom\/"},"modified":"2022-01-26T09:41:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T09:41:41","slug":"dont-blame-buhari-for-the-mess-you-put-benue-presidency-hits-ortom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/26\/dont-blame-buhari-for-the-mess-you-put-benue-presidency-hits-ortom\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Don\u2019t Blame Buhari For The Mess You Put Benue\u2019 \u2014 Presidency Hits Ortom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_822977\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-822977\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-822977 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20210725_074248-600x399.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018Don\u2019t Blame Buhari For The Mess You Put Benue\u2019 \u2014 Presidency Hits Ortom\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-822977\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samuel Ortom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The presidency has urged Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue not to blame President Muhammadu Buhari for the state\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with Arise Television, Ortom had said the All Progressive Congress (APC) has ruined Nigeria and that citizens regret voting Buhari into power.<\/p>\n<p>In response to complaints that Benue workers\u2019 salaries were not being paid, Ortom stated that he inherited over N70 billion in pension, salary, and gratuity arrears from his predecessor and that, despite this, he is doing his best.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Tuesday in response to Ortom\u2019s remarks, presidential spokesperson Garba Shehu said there are two types of politicians: those who offer solutions to the country\u2019s problems and those who offer excuses \u201cand instead blame others for problems they have either not solved or created themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0Ortom To Buhari: Benue Not Enjoying Your Government<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shehu went on to stated that Ortom is an example of the second class of politicians who blame others for challenges.<\/p>\n<p>He said Ortom \u201cinherited unpaid salaries and pension arrears\u201d and rather than find a way to raise funds to pay them, \u201che has blamed the President\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Muhammadu Buhari is a leader. He inherited a treasury that had been emptied by successive previous administrations \u2013 and he sought and succeeded in repatriating billions of dollars of stolen funds from overseas,\u201d the statement reads in part.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Ortom The presidency has urged Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue not to blame President Muhammadu Buhari for the state\u2019s problems. In a recent interview with Arise Television, Ortom had said the All Progressive Congress (APC) has ruined Nigeria and that citizens regret voting Buhari into power. In response to complaints that Benue workers\u2019 salaries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}