Immediate past Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has embarked on a bitter war of words with former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, over a statement credited to Atiku where he reportedly accused Ortom of being corrupt.
According to Ortom, the said comment by Atiku insinuating that members of the G-5 who worked against him during the last presidential election have ongoing corruption cases at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), but were being protected by President Bola Tinubu, was coming from a frustrated man who was rejected by his own party due to his past corrupt practices.
In a statement on Wednesday by his media aide, Terver Akase, Ortom said Atiku should rather be worried “being the first presidential candidate of a leading political party to be rejected by key stakeholders.”
