Unfortunate, Buhari’s Attempt To Twist Benue Killings – Ortom

The president’s attempt to muddy up the killings in Benue State, according to Governor Samuel Ortom, is regrettable and repugnant. He charged that residents of Benue were not adequately protected by the federal government, which is led by President Muhammadu Buhari.

In response to Garba Shehu, the president’s media aide, who claimed that Ortom had politicized insecurity in his state and allowed the crisis to worsen, Ortom made these remarks.

Shehu claimed that although the Buhari administration had already taken a number of measures to address the killings in Benue, more progress could have been made if the Ortom administration had shown some receptivity.

The killings and mass murder committed in Benue by the Fulani militia, however, had the full support of the Buhari administration, according to Ortom, in a statement released by his spokesman Nathaniel Ikyur.

The governor claimed that it was public knowledge that he had pleaded with the Buhari administration to intervene in the ongoing invasion of Benue State by herders’ militias, describing the statement as a careless attempt by perpetrators of genocide to shift the blame to the victims.

He continued by saying that the attempt by the APC to make fun of him over losing his senatorial seat and the PDP’s victory in the governorship had only strengthened the notion that the state’s extensive deployment of security personnel for the elections was conceived and planned in the presidential villa under the watchful eye of APC agents.