Ortom made the demand following the killing of seven persons by suspected herdsmen during an attack on an Internally Displaced Persons camp in Abagena community, Benue State
Browsing: Samuel Ortom
The president joins family and friends to celebrate the governor, thanking God for a life of service to his state and the nation.
This came to the fore when the State Governor, Samuel Ortom, paid a condolence visit to the area on Wednesday evening.
Ortom said their arrest was part of the resolution of the state’s security council which met on Monday.
Both spoke on Thursday at the Nigeria Union of Journalists Correspondents Chapel Forum in Abuja, where Ortom was the Guest Speaker and Ndume Chairman.
This was also as the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, apologised to the Federal Government, Nigerian Army, families and colleagues of the bereaved over the incident.
The Governors, operating on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party Governors Forum, said this in a communique issued after their meeting on Friday in Makurdi, the Benue State capital
Performing the ceremony on Thursday at the palace in Gboko, Ortom said the construction of a standard Oche Indoma palace was underway.
This was disclosed by the Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, in a statement on Sunday.
Ortom made the observation in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase, in Makurdi on Friday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Ortom and his security details had to run to where the governor’s convoy was parked, about 1km away from the farm.
Wike, who spoke in a statement on Saturday amid report by Ortom that he was attacked by armed Fulani herdsmen in Benue State, also on Saturday, said President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress will be held responsible if Ortom is killed
This was contained in a statement by DSP Catherine Anene, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, on Friday.
The retraction was published in a number of national newspapers on Thursday 18th March, 2021.
Ortom said this in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase, on Wednesday in Makurdi.
Wike gave the advice in Port Harcourt at a meeting held to reconcile Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State and his Bauchi State counterpart, Bala Mohammed.
The duo embraced on Tuesday after a meeting initiated by the Peoples Democratic Party, which held in Port Harcourt, the Rivers S tate capital.
The two governors have engaged each other in a public spat over the proprietary of open grazing and Fulani herdsmen carrying assault rifles for protection.
Ortom had alleged Mohammed is a terrorist, sponsoring herdsmen.
While excoriating the Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, for banning open grazing, and some governors in the South West geopolitical zone for speaking out against the killer herdsmen, the Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, on February 11, 2021, said: “The West doesn’t want to accommodate other tribes but we are accommodating your tribe in Bauchi. We have Yorubas who have stayed in Bauchi for over 150 years. Some of them have been made permanent secretaries in Gombe, Bauchi and Borno but because the Fulani man is practicing the tradition of pastoralism, he has been exposed to cattle rustlers who carry a gun, kill him and take away his cows: he has no option but to carry AK 47 because the government and the society are not protecting him.”