Nigerian Governor Laments Frustrations

<h4>Nigerian Governor Laments Frustrations<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that a Nigerian governor&comma; Samuel Ortom has poured out his lamentations governing Benue State&comma; a middle belt State in Nigeria&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Speaking on Arise TV Friday morning&comma; Samuel Ortom who is rounding off his second tenure stated that his inability to deliver dividends of democracy to his people was as a result of frustration unleashed on him by the All Progressives Congress&comma; APC&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;For instance&comma; Ortom who spoke on the humongous pension arrears owned pensioners in the state noted that he was not the first to own pension and salary arrears in Benue&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Coming close to declaring that it is a tradition to own pension in Benue State&comma; Samuel Ortom stated that right from the time of Ushongo born Aper Aku who governed the State between 1979 and 1983&comma; salaries have been owned in Benue&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;However&comma; Ortom explained that he had put strategic measures in place to ensure that he did not own salary in Benue but was frustrated by <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;">APC agents who impressed on the Central Bank governor not to release his N20 billion loan<&sol;a>&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;President Buhari had approved the money&period; Minister of Finance and Debt Management Office&comma; DMO have all approved but some people in APC ensured that the money was never released to me because they felt if I got the money and deliver democracy dividends to the people &comma; they would have nothing to campaign against me&comma;” Ortom stated&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Moving forward&comma; Ortom hinted that he would be retiring to farming having lost his senatorial bid saying that he has much evidence to challenge APC in court but &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I don’t want to aggravate the problems in Benue&period; So&comma; I simply let go&comma;” he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;20319" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-20319" style&equals;"width&colon; 300px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-20319" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;04&sol;Samuel-Ortom-300x158&period;webp" alt&equals;"Nigerian Governor Laments Frustrations" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"158" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-20319" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><em><strong>Governor Ortom of Benue State<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;