Browsing: Governor Samuel Ortom

Appearing unconcerned, unpurposed and uninterested, the chief of stealth and the lord of disguise, the chameleon, is the cunning thief embroidering the environment in stolen identity. The chameleon is the motion without movement, the heat without temperature, the echo without sound.

Governor Samuel Ortom disclosed this when he received the new Commissioner of Police in the state, Tunji Akingbola.

The Leader of the forum, Chief Yandev Amaa-Bai, made the remark at a news conference in Makurdi on Friday.

Governor Samuel Ortom in several publications had attacked the president, describing him as the worse when it comes to security due to the rising state of insecurity in Nigeria and Benue especially.

We the stakeholders of the Benue State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are alarmed at the lonesome bitter and sustained campaign of calumny launched by the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom on the person and office of our President, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR.

The former governor of Benue State made the call at a press conference in Abuja on Monday.

He had claimed Boko Haram terrorists mentioned names of current governors, senators and Aso Rock officials as sponsors

Checks by The Nation indicated it was not the first time Channels TV would be queried by NBC.

Ortom, who was at the police headquarters in Makurdi on Monday to see the corpses of the suspected kidnappers, said that the feat was commendable.

Ortom said this when he interacted with newsmen on Thursday in Makurdi shortly after he returned from a trip to Akwa Ibom.

The task of laundering Ortom’s permanently stained reputation garments now falls on one Nathaniel Ikyur who once functioned as a reporter in Abuja for a few national dailies but is now domiciled in Makurdi as Ortom’s “principal” Special Assistant on media.

The party in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja on Wednesday said it was alarmed over the sad news.

This was contained in a statement on Saturday by his Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase, in Makurdi.

During the protest, they blocked the Markurdi-Lafia Federal Highway and laid the corpses of the victims on the road.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that one Army officer and ten soldiers were found dead after they went missing in Benue.

Ortom made the promise in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase, on Wednesday in Makurdi.

The governor, according to a statement made available to journalists on Saturday by the State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Ngunan Adingi, hinged the suspension to crisis in Mbatyough Council Ward, Mbagen in the council area which led to the burning down of a widow, Shaade Nyihemba.

This is according to a photo that was shared on the official Twitter handle of the Governor without any other detail about the meeting.

From Orlu to Nkpologwu, people, in Nigeria’s usual cloud of denialism, often referred to as “unknown gunmen” are on a spree. Killing police, military and naval resources, attacking police stations, police checkpoints, Nigeria Correctional Service convoys, etcetera. It should be clear by now, we are witnessing an aggressive social re-engineering campaign. These “unknown gunmen” are seeking to obtain the monopoly of violence or at least become a dominant force in the southeast.

Speaking to State House Correspondents after the meeting, Governor Ortom said he was pleased with President Buhari’s reaction to the development, adding they shared ideas on how to manage the crisis trailing the development.