The address was presented by Dr Luqman AbdurRaheem, Chairman, TMC Committee on Social Mobility, Economy and Politics.
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In a statement by his spokesman, Laolu Akande, Osinbajo said it will be a terrible falsehood to suggest he was ever informed by the Governor or anyone else of the imminence of the killing of citizens of our country in those or any other local governments in Benue State.
Receiving a delegation of political leaders, traditional rulers and elders of the state led by Governor Samuel Ortom at the Presidential Villa, President Buhari said all those involved in the conflict that culminated in loss of lives would not escape justice, including any illegally armed militia in the state.
The party said in Lagos that the recent clashes in Benue called for reflection on the way forward and not blames game and media war.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, ASP Moses Yamu, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Makurdi.
The hosts surprised the visiting Enyimba with good resilience from the beginning of the match till the end, with their only goal in the 30th minute of the match.
The scheme made the announcement on its official Facebook page in Abuja on Sunday.
He said he warned Buhari about 17 months ago of the possibility of the development in a private memorandum.
The governor disclosed this on Sunday when he visited the camps in the two Local Government Areas of the state.
In a communique after its meeting on January 12 and January 13 in Makurdi, the bishops, while condemning the massacre of over 73 people in Guma and Logo local government councils, called on the church to remain resolute in prayers.
Governor Dickson stated this at the weekend in Ipole, Ijigban in Ado Local Government Area of Benue State during the burial of Veronica Enayi, the mother of his Chief Press Secretary, Francis Ottah Agbo.
In a statement issued in Abuja on Saturday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said while the Federal Government is working hard to address the situation with a view to preventing a recurrence, not just in Benue State but everywhere across the country, it is incumbent on the media and public commentators not to engage in actions that can aggravate the crisis.
Prince Raymond Enero, the National Co-ordinator of the group, noted that Ortom should be held responsible for the breakdown of law and order in his jurisdiction and must be additionally tried as an accessory to murder in all the killings that have followed the crisis instigated by him, once his tenure is over or once he does the needful by stepping aside.
The I-G stated this on Saturday during an inspection tour of Gbajimba, Anyiin and Tunga villages in Benue and Nasarawa states.
A statement by the Deputy Force spokesman, SP Aremu Adeniran, said Idris made the call at the Internally Displaced Persons camp on Saturday in Gbagjimba, Guma Local Government Area of Benue.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who made the appeal in a statement in Abuja on Saturday, cautioned against “incendiary comments, unrestrained use of pictures and footages that offended human sensibilities” in the coverage of the crisis.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Makurdi residents took to the streets in peacefully protest, over the killings in Guma and Logo local Government councils.
Badung Chuhwak, spokesperson of the group, while briefing newsmen on Friday in Jos said that Lalong did not mean to cause more pains to Benue people.
Dr. Obadiah, Mailafia, former Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, made the call in a keynote lecture delivered at the presentation of three books by Ambassador Joy Ogwu on Thursday in Abuja.
The governor said this on Thursday when he fielded questions from State House correspondents after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.