Benue Governor, Ortom Laments Influx Of Killer Herdsmen Into Communities After APC Candidate, Father Alia’s Victory | Sahara Reporters

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The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has raised concerns over the influx of killer herdsmen into the state after Reverend Fr Hyacinth Alia was declared winner of the March 18 gubernatorial poll. This was contained in a statement released by his Chief Press Secretary Nathaniel Ikyur, worrying that this might affect the security situation of the state if it was not addressed by the Governor-elect.

Benue Governor, Ortom Laments Influx Of Killer Herdsmen Into Communities After APC Candidate, Father Alia’s VictoryThis was contained in a statement released by his Chief Press Secretary Nathaniel Ikyur, worrying that this might affect the security situation of the state if it was not addressed by the Governor-elect.

In an article titled"Ortom did not shut out the Fulani from Benue”, Ikyur expressed concerns that Alia's relationship with the Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, George Akume, might jeopardise state security. Akume had denied the allegations, blaming the herders' actions on Ortom's inability to properly govern the state.

 

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What if you're the one responsible?

What Ndigboo suffered in 1967 to 1970 and all Nigerians supported the genocidal war against Biafrans Ndigboo. We are so sorry for what is happening in Benue.. That is the profit of one Nigeria. Biafra is our identity

Like seriously the problem of this benue state Killing is in the hand of there governor, how can ur people be Killing like a chicken and all u could do is to come out and condemn without taken actions on the killer even if federal government don't intervene 🙄🙄🙄

Why crying?They are your brothers,just give them accommodation .

Constant slaughtering of innocent ppl in their homes by foreign terrorists & yet there's no powerful security outfit from state or local govt to stop them. It's your prime duty to stand up strong to defend your land & your innocent citizens from foreign demons GovSamuelOrtom

Everytime Fulanis is your nightmare and you have forgotten is your militia men that are stealing as well as eating their cows and wonder how is Ortom going cope if BAT entered sit .. good eight years you didn't transform Benue in anything only good in blame game

You didn't play your role well to say the fact..

Instead of this one to find alternative solution to the killings in Benue like his counterparts in the southwest, no na so so lamenting he go dey lament. I'm sorry to say Ortom is very clueless and empty.

Hmmmmm

How can apc win under you Ortom knowing fully well what's going on

Governor ortom of benue state should wack up to defend his people ,if not these fulani terrorist will finish benue people

May be that's what the Benue people wanted. Why did they not go the way of Ortom? Hmmmmmmmm...........

anything that comes from apc is bad, even if it's a pastor

Fulani herdsmen can’t buy lands and graze like other Nigerians that buy lands ? Why must they kill and take what’s not theirs ? Do we have a government ? Humans lives are being lost , farms destroyed, I’m sick

This has lost that thing inside skull

I wonder why he didnt blame herdsmen for his defeat in the last election.. Useless man

Who unleashed them?

Keep quiet and do your job or quit the sit, sir.

They want to take over Benue oh

Crying Governor.....

When they say the North will only support candidates who's got her interest at heart y'all thought they were joking. Now their stooges will downplay this as 'fake news'

Keep playing the dreaded game, you will sure end up in jail and b forgotten. Wicked man

Election of Benue was rigged to give free access to Fulani into Benue,my sadness is that Benue people don't learn from all these happenings they still went ahead and vote APC enabling Herdsmen,I prefer worse pdp or other party to APC in Benue.

Oga all this killings happened during your tenure, don't try to paint the governor Elect black,is the the governor Elect a Fulani man, horrible politicians 🌚

Hw did a priest go under APC to contest for a Post? How? After the tragic things happening in Nigeria..

The most us3l3ss governor award should go to Ortom

Abeg did Benue people really vote for that APC Rev. Fr abi na rigging dem use install am?

That shows that he the governor knows who are this killers

The governor elect said, the killings in the state is political, that Benue people are the ones killings themselves during his campaign. He even said that, if he won the election he will resolve the problem btw Benue people and fulanis so that they can co- exist

Ortom n lamentations na 5&6 lmaO

myaccessbank I have not used my ATM card in 2 years because it had expired. You keep removing N53.75 for card maintenance fee. Which card are you then maintaining? This has a coloration of fraud, refund my money jare..

I see nigerian dividing and I prayed the dream comes true this year in mighty name of Yeshua.Amen🙏🏾

The people deserve the type of government they get, so said a popular saying!

BOGbadams Benue people will see big and full time shege, they will learn never to vote anybody from apc even if the pope himself joins apc

By owing salaries for & pensions for 8, his time as governor he didn't employ anybody or promote any body, he didn't execute any project in the state. APC rigged presidential election but they didn't rig Governorship Election, in benue state Ortom is a devil

But he's still the governor and the Security votes are still pouring into his mouth

The APC governor elect must either fall out with APC or his people with time..one thing must happen. The truth is that APC as a government is either complicit in the killings or lacks the capacity to stop the killings.

They should enjoy

Mr Ortom, you are still the governor of Benue State or are you trying to tell the world that, you are the master mind of the attacks because your candidate has lost.

How Benue people voted for APC actually beat my imagination.

So why can't you deploy your Army to fight their insurgence? Like I don't understand why you're there and your people are being killed everyday, why are you there even when you have your state's military at your disposal?

They should live with it haha 😂 are they not the ones that voted APC haha 😂. They never see anything 😂more are coming.foolishness everywhere

So, Ortom is not ready to quit this game he has been playing. The blood of the dead will hunt the perpetrators.

He already betrayed Atiku and betrayed Peter Obi to work for Agbado APC despite all the Benue people sacrificed during Otom 8 years tenure. He should leave with the monster he created out of greed. RiP to lives lost.

Enough of lamentation. Arm your people. Everybody should have a rifle.

Father Alias 😅🤣🐕 Ndi Mgbu

🧩 How they decided to vote in APC is a case study. Where is that shagari boy, to shout about one north.

Benue people really disappointed me in the last governorship election. They should have known that nothing good and peaceful will come out from any APC product. Sorry for them, APC is a party that enjoys seeing people suffer for no good reason.

🤣🤣🤣

You can drag a horse to the river, but you can't force her to drink water. I'm done advising my people to stop being foolish

The people of Benue invited them by voting for it. Ortom has fought a good battle against the enemy, it's time he go home to his family and thank his God for everything. Let the people of the state enjoy the dividend of voting APC

You are still the Gov. of Benue State, please call your G-4 for assistance. You been crying all these years, no result.

Hmmmmm,

Last last they will ask for a land to graze their cattle. like say na only them Sabi fight.

So was he not supposed to win the election b'cos he is a Christian? just wanted to ask sir.

Benue should expect worst than IMO,only hope left is in court, offcourse. Wonder how foolish this people can be to elect someone in APC after all this Nd say he is pastor,chaii. My people perished because of lack of knowledge.

Ortom, stop lamenting and grow some balls fgs.

Elections are over and the killing have continued. NAIJA which way forward.

Ortom you are too complain Alia never assume office now you are the one in charge.

U de office talk u leave talk baba go rest dem seh u no do well

Self destruction. Voting for a party that doesn't care if you are wiped out.

Every time ortom is lamenting! Isn’t he the governor?

Total Referendum Optional now . MNK prophecies fulfilled argue this here at your own peril. Me To End Nigeria Is A Task That MUST Be Done To Save Lives And property's. And more delays and more calamities uploading ahead.👇🇳🇬NigeriaMustEndNow FreeMaziNnamdiKanuNow

Benue people were scam with a Reverend father

Oga stop lamenting protect your state, be aggressive lives and livelihoods are lost, have some balls use your veto

Oh no more Atiku to blame now it’s the new Governor very useless Administrator… Benue people voted for APC top to bottom even with all that happened with Buhari 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

When they open their eyes and voted for a terrorist party to be governor what did they expect,

What kind of Governor is this. You are still the Governor, but you still find a way to blame an opposition party that is yet to take over power. Your mumu don too much I swear.... No wonder , the citizens voted out your party.

You People are sleeping

They will pay for voting APC...

It is a shame that he thinks a newly elected APC government will change things. Hmmmm....

Yes, ooo they thought their own man won APC,

Before the elections, the killings stopped and the people voted massively for a political party that never defended them. In any case, the blood of the dead and who knows if some voted the APC, will never rest until divine justice is served on the killers

Let them enjoy it. Gov Ortom you've done your level best.

Leave benue alone they are reaping the fruit of their many evil against Biafra during the war .it's simple

nnamdiia This is very dangerous ooooo

Hmmm

Make they enjoy it while it lasts

Keep on talking and lamenting until everyone from ur state dies without outing action or do something, be waiting for those who are organizing d killings to come to ur aid.

God have mercy on Benue and save them from these blood sucking demons.

I will give the new governor 1 year before criticizing him. I’ll still in shock why Benue people will vote for the national party that oversaw the killing of their people. Will he be as fearless as Ortom or a toothless lapdog that can’t complain or say anything against Fulani

This is a false news. Bandits doesn't exist in the north. Buhari is the best President Nigeria has ever produced. Tinubu is coming to consolidate on Buhari's achievement.

If by now Benue ppl have not learnt their lesson,they will never learn

May God forgive you all, someone that governor elect that have no power the chief security of a state is blaming him what a shame alialization you must probe otom and his government and pls father never take security of your state for granted. Pray your govt shame dis 😈

They seems to be enjoying the killing that's why they vote for APC again you have tried for them. Let them bear the consequences of their actions, please

The state assembly should start preparing for impeachment of Samuel Ortom for his failure to restore peace & stability in Benue. He has woefully fail to discharge his duty as the chief security of his state despite billions of fund spent on security on monthly basis

Samuel Ortom still remains the worse governor Benue State has ever produce, I'm from Benue State and for years now I have to watch my mother's and father's,brothers and sisters been slaughtered on their farm lands or while at sleep, we are talking reality here,

This is very annoying

How can a solution be found when everything is politicized?

This man have started again. Always not taking responsibility as usual but looking for people to blame for his failure.

Stop lamenting oga, do something. They know you are weak, i hope the next governor wont be as weak as you are.

Oya naaa..... Anything in connection to APC is havoc

The plan is to take over Benue State. They must rise against their oppressors!

This Ortom should just man-up and face these monsters before leaving office. You're the CSO of Benue. I learnt Fulani terrorist have occupied most of the villages in Benue. Nonsense

This man and Fulani lamba

If Benue wants to defend their land, Nigeria Army will not allow them

So you are still the governor, protector of the Benue valley, but it is the gov. elect from the opposition that is continuing what has always been, even when you were the protector? Shirt👕!!!

A very useless governor bereft of ideas, always blaming somebody else for his ineptitude & failures. Owing salary, gratuity, no single thing to show in 8 years. Yesterday it was Atiku, today it’s Father Alia, and of course, he has brainless & unintelligent youth to back him up.

Gov. Ortom has fought the good fight. With is left awaits the incoming Governor elect. It is left to be seen if the State will sustain the fight to wade off, or succumb to herdsmen wanton desire to take over Benue State.

Thats what you get for voting the APC...influx of killer herdsmen.

Peace will return to Benue soon after Ortom exit! His style of politics is what is spiking the crisis and clashes. Imagine the reaction of a sitting Gov to a disaster involving human lives! Why bring in party politics? By the way, are the attackers 'Herdsmen' or Benue 'Helmsmen'?

But he have not been sworn in?

I want to point out some fact , since the killing going. Ok , I have not seen DSS as our senior security service , give us a kind of investigation and condemnation on this sense killings or are we missing something , they have to do something

They have started playing politics with lives

Shameless man! The respected reverend father will do what you failed to do in your 8 wasted years!

Ortom is a big fat lie, thank God he has been pushed shamelessly

Irresponsible people never accept their fault. A sitting governor is not proactive to protect the lives of the people he governed, a problem has been for years but you always blame others for your responsibility. Look at how others set up security outfit to manage insecurity. ODE

Werey olorin, keep singing the miserable song

Samuel Ortom is always playing politics with the lives Benue people for a long time.

Hahahahaha una go hear whiii

when d pains become unbearable.when life is so dark, When tears are flowing freely and you can't keep on what do you do. depression is something anyone's else shouldn't feel. it has been a long battle. I can't go on, it was Nice here with you. I have to end it.I pray I find peace

It's pity they rigged Benue for this reason' and you can imagine APC winning Benue' Benue voted massively for labor party but was rigged' you can imagine Benue voting APC after all the killings by the APC government' Benue that hated APC with passion the rigging is obvious

This is why we igbos rejected APC

Send them back

Old game

That was the pact Fr Alia signed with Benue people who abandoned you after defending them with your life. Your Excellency, go and have a quiet rest and let the people face the pact they signed.

That seem to be their choice.

The killings in Nigeria seems to be politically empowered. It appears the killers have their political godfathers who give them signal to attack as a means of sabotage. High intelligence must b adopted by the new government in order to counter all barbaric killings experienced

Defender of benue valley the last time I check you are still the sitting governor. Where are they livestock guards?

I don’t know what you want me to say . A state like yours shouldn’t have voted for APC . Manage your problems.

Elections have consequences my good sir. You did your best

Has herdsmen not being killing my lovely benue people? Are you still not the governor or have u hand over to the father? GovSamuelOrtom when will you stop this political cho cho cho cho waving people's attention from the salary you couldn't pay

GovSamuelOrtom knows the end to all this killings is Nigeria brack away only Biafra can stop this killings

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