Ortom,Rochas, 22 other APC Governors endores President Buhari for second term
The Benue state governor, Samuel Ortom today abandoned Benue state despite the continues killings in the state to join 23 other governors elected on the platform of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) on Tuesday announced their endorsement of President Muhammadu Buhari’s candidature for the 2019 presidential election. Rochas Okorocha, Imo state governor, made the position of the governors known to state house correspondents after a closed-door meeting with the president at the presidential villa, Abuja. The president had at the last APC national executive committee meeting declared his intention to run for second term in 2019. Okorocha told the correspondents that they communicated their support for the president’s re-election bid at the meeting. “We came to welcome him back and to commend him for his boldness and courage to declare his intention to run for second term as president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which we the 24 governors of the APC duly support,” ...