Ortom described Wike as a \u201cworthy friend\u201d who has always shown support for the people of Benue.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen Benue was under siege, he donated N250 million and he subsequently spent over N700 million to support the state to tackle the humanitarian crisis occasioned by the unwarranted attacks,\u201d Ortom said.<\/p>\n
He did not stop at that. He convinced Emmanuel Udom of Akwa Ibom to also assist the state and he donated N200 million to us.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIs he not a worthy friend? He is a worthy friend and we are working together to liberate the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany have wondered why I have chosen to swim with Wike. Many have wondered why I have chosen to work with him in darkness and in the midst of storms and threats and also trial and brimstone.<\/p>\n
This is a man who stood with us during our trying times and came out, did not fear about threats of the federal government or federal might, but came out and say look, if you kill Ortom, you have killed Nigeria.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey call it farmers\/herders fight. We say it\u2019s all lies, Fulani is coming to invade us. Wike came out, brought stakeholders from Rivers state and they came here. Wike offered us solidarity and in faith with the Benue people and give his commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wike had contested the PDP presidential election in May but lost to Atiku Abubakar.<\/p>\n
The Rivers governor also lost the PDP vice-presidential ticket after Atiku picked Ifeanyi Okowa, governor of Delta, over Wike who was recommended by a panel comprising governors and national working committee (NWC) members.<\/p>\n
The Rivers governor is at the forefront of the campaign for the resignation of Iyorchia Ayu as the national chairman of PDP.<\/p>\n
Despite being from the same Tiv-speaking part of Benue with Ayu, Ortom has insisted that Wike\u2019s demand be met.<\/p>\n
According to Ortom, Wike has been unfairly treated by PDP.<\/p>\n
\u201cInjustice has been meted to governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers, and it must be addressed. Justice must be served to him,\u201d Ortom said in September.<\/p>\n
Wike stood and supported the party and he should be given due attention.\u201d<\/p>\n
The five governors have boycotted the PDP presidential campaign.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue, says he is working with Nyesom Wike, his Rivers colleague, to liberate the country. Pointblanknews.com gathered that Ortom made the statement on Sunday when he…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"\n
Wike spent over N700 million to support Benue state, we will stand by him- Gov. Ortom - Pointblank News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wike spent over N700 million to support Benue state, we will stand by him- Gov. Ortom - Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue, says he is working with Nyesom Wike, his Rivers colleague, to liberate the country. Pointblanknews.com gathered that Ortom made the statement on Sunday when he…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-11-08T16:32:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pjimage-2022-01-02T083441.165.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"headline\":\"Wike spent over N700 million to support Benue state, we will stand by him- Gov. Ortom\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-11-08T16:32:24+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/\"},\"wordCount\":435,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pjimage-2022-01-02T083441.165.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Exclusive\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/\",\"name\":\"Wike spent over N700 million to support Benue state, we will stand by him- Gov. Ortom - Pointblank News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pjimage-2022-01-02T083441.165.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-11-08T16:32:24+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pjimage-2022-01-02T083441.165.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pjimage-2022-01-02T083441.165.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":720},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Wike spent over N700 million to support Benue state, we will stand by him- Gov. Ortom\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/\",\"name\":\"Pointblank News\",\"description\":\"Just the news\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\",\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Our Reporter\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Wike spent over N700 million to support Benue state, we will stand by him- Gov. Ortom - Pointblank News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Wike spent over N700 million to support Benue state, we will stand by him- Gov. Ortom - Pointblank News","og_description":"Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue, says he is working with Nyesom Wike, his Rivers colleague, to liberate the country. Pointblanknews.com gathered that Ortom made the statement on Sunday when he…","og_url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/","og_site_name":"Pointblank News","article_published_time":"2022-11-08T16:32:24+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1280,"height":720,"url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pjimage-2022-01-02T083441.165.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Our Reporter","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Our Reporter","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/"},"author":{"name":"Our Reporter","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c"},"headline":"Wike spent over N700 million to support Benue state, we will stand by him- Gov. Ortom","datePublished":"2022-11-08T16:32:24+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/"},"wordCount":435,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pjimage-2022-01-02T083441.165.jpg","articleSection":["Exclusive"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/","name":"Wike spent over N700 million to support Benue state, we will stand by him- Gov. Ortom - Pointblank News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pjimage-2022-01-02T083441.165.jpg","datePublished":"2022-11-08T16:32:24+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pjimage-2022-01-02T083441.165.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pjimage-2022-01-02T083441.165.jpg","width":1280,"height":720},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-spent-over-n700-million-to-support-benue-state-we-will-stand-by-him-gov-ortom\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Wike spent over N700 million to support Benue state, we will stand by him- Gov. Ortom"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/","name":"Pointblank News","description":"Just the news","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c","name":"Our Reporter","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Our Reporter"},"url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}