Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has said that some people have blocked his access to President Muhammadu Buhari.
He said his inability to meet him was the reason he always talked to the press.
Ortom, in a statement by his spokesperson, Nathaniel Ikyu, noted that it was the same people who prevented Buhari from releasing a N42bn bailout he earlier approved.
Ortom said: “We applied for a bailout of N42 billion from the Federal Government to enable us to offset longstanding arrears of salaries, pensions and gratuities.
“Some of these people scrambled to the State House to tell the President not to release the funds even after approval so that we will not take the credit for solving the age-long problem.
“This is the kind of mean-spirited attitude APC is inflicting on our people.”
The governor accused some unnamed APC leaders of denying him access to President Buhari for almost two years now.
He said that was the reason he has been channelling his messages to President Buhari through the media, although he would have preferred discussing with the President one-on-one.
“It is the very same people who have ensured my inaccessibility to the President. I said it before. It is now almost two years since I last saw the President. If I had access to him, I will prefer a one-on-one exchange with him.
“Since that is not possible, I go to the press. I must talk, I must express myself. I am holding this office in trust for several million people of Benue State. I am not here of my own volition.”
