Wike, Kanu, PDP talk tough on attempted assassination of Gov. Ortom

 

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has warned the Federal Government that killing Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom could lead to a civil war.

Suspected herdsmen opened fire on Ortom’s convoy on Saturday with the governor escaping death.

Fifteen gunmen had trailed him to a river bank in Tyo Mu along Makurdi/Gboko road in Makurdi Local Government Area of Benue State on Saturday and opened fire.

“If you kill Ortom, then be prepared to bury Nigeria. If anything happens to Governor Ortom, the Federal Government will be held responsible and they should be prepared that there will be no more Nigeria,” he warned.

Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has reacted to the attack on Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State’s convoy by suspected Fulani herdsmen.

According to the governor, the attempt on his life happened a few days after the leadership of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore held a meeting in Yola and singled him out as a thorn in their flesh who must be eliminated.

The governor had pointed out that he received intelligence to that effect.

Reacting to the incident, Kanu in a tweet wrote: “Every day same #Fulani terrorists and their Fulani sponsors in Aso Rock terrorising the whole of #Nigeria.

“Instead of @USinNigeria to condemn such brazen act of criminality, they are busy configuring an elusive fake unity with the same #Fulani murderers. Failure of honest diplomacy.”

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said President Muhammadu Buhari and his All Progressives Congress (APC)-led administration should be held responsible for Saturday’s attack and the assassination attempt on Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State by suspected bandits reported to be killer herdsmen.

The PDP made this known in a statement released by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan.

The PDP described the attack as reckless and called on the president to put machinery in motion by ordering an immediate manhunt, arrest and prosecution of the assailants and beef up security around the governor.