Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has accused the Presidency of spitting on the graves of victims of armed herdsmen attacks in the state after “President Muhammadu Buhari failed woefully to secure Nigerians and Benue people in particular from the pastoralists’ expansionist agenda.”
Governor Ortom in a statement on Thursday by his Chief Press Secretary, Nathaniel Ikyur, was reacting to Wednesday’s statement by a presidential spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu, captioned, “President Buhari’s Benue record speaks for itself, let the people of Benue speak for themselves too”.
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The Presidency’s statement, among others, blamed the Benue governor for the killings in the state and also mocked his outing in the last elections.
According to Shehu, “Fortunately, the people of Benue State know the truth. After all, it is they who have suffered under Ortom’s “leadership” — if one can call it such.
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“It is they who have experienced first-hand the mass killings, the torture, the litany of atrocities as Benue’s security situation plummeted ever further.
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