We advised Buhari not to hurry back home – Ortom

By Abdullahi M. Gulloma Abuja

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state, yesterday, said governors from the six geopolitical zones of the country, who recently visited President Muhammadu Buhari in London, advised him not to hurry back home. Speaking to State House correspondents in Abuja, Ortom said, the governors advised the President to take his time and get clearance from his doctors before returning to the country.

He said the governors were happy to meet the President jovial and in high spirit, and not on wheel chair or at the Intensive Care Unit as speculated in some quarters. “I will say hallelujah because God has answered my prayers. I was the fi rst person that initiated prayers, both Christians and Muslims to pray for Mr. President because that is our duty. Romans 13:1 and 2 say that there is no power that be without God’s ordination, and those of us who are subjects should continue to pray for such.

“So, it is our responsibility not to be castigating Mr. President or be wishing him or whatever. We should be praying for him. If Mr. President is sick, it means all of us are sick, the whole country is sick. So, it is our responsibility to pray that Mr. President gets well so that our country too will be well.

“Mr. President is doing well, we appreciate God, we saw him, he was not in a wheel chair, he was not bedridden, he greeted us, we cracked jokes and he was mentally alert. We discussed about the security situations in the country and asked us questions about what we are doing.

“Our prayer is that God will consummate his healing. We asked him not to hurry because there is no vacuum, the Acting President is holding forth for him and he is doing very well and he has his confi dence. By the grace of God, I believe that very soon, he will be with us.”

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