GOVERNOR Samuel Ortom has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of denying the people of Benue State meaningful projects in the last eight years.
“The Buhari government denied Benue State any meaningful project in the last eight years, including the repair of federal government roads in the state which are now death traps,” Governor said on Thursday.
The Benue Governor also indicted Buhari on insecurity, saying the president failed to secure the people of the state against killings by herdsmen.
In a statement on Thursday by his Chief Press Secretary, Nathaniel Ikyur, Ortom said that the ‘ people are well aware that Governor Ortom has been a target of the Buhari presidency since 2017 when he boldly signed a law banning open grazing of livestock in the state.
“The Governor has been subjected to many coordinated media attacks, probes, freezing of state accounts, and other punitive measures to frustrate and cripple his administration.
“While other states were given infrastructural loans, Benue under Governor Ortom was denied access to the funds. The same thing happened when the Benue State Government met all requirements to secure N42 billion to clear the backlog of salaries, pensions, and gratuity.”
“The Presidency’s statement is a reckless stab by agents of genocide against the Benue people by blaming the victims.
“It is an insult to Benue people including those killed and butchered children, the maimed, raped, and abused women, and the over two million people living under squalid conditions in Nigeria’s largest Internally Displaced Camps in the state.”
