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APC Accuses Ortom Of Using Livestock Guard For Attacks In Benue by naijapikin04(m): 9:32am On Feb 22, 2019
https://nextedition.com.ng/2019/02/22/apc-accuses-ortom-using-livestock-guard-attacks-benue/

The All Progressive Congress, APC, in Benue state has accused the state government of sponsoring attacks in some part of the state using the Livestock Guard.

But the PDP has said the APC was making the accusation out of fear of failing the forthcoming elections

The APC House of Representatives Candidate for Makurdi/Guma Federal Constituency, Mr Conrad Terhide Utaan made the allegation on Thursday while briefing newsmen in reaction to the attacks in the community of Guma Local Government Area of Benue State.

He said he had called the press to draw attention to a very dangerous trend emerging in the state where, according to him, Gov. Samuel Ortom’s ineptitude to deliver on good governance, had made him desperate for survival.

He said that Gov Ortom had, recently, abandoned every single responsibility of governance and had gone into politics, making inflammatory statements that were inimical to the development of the state.

Utaan said rumours about Fulani herdsmen being attacked on the fringes of the Benue boundaries were deliberate provocations as the issues in the state were not necessarily between Fulani herdsmen and the farmers.

He noted that the Benue people have lived peacefully with Fulani before now acknowledging that the competition for arable land for farming and land for grazing had thrown up a lot of challenges between the two.

“As it is now, the Benue government has decided to turn this into a political tool to seek re-election. I have it on good authority that in the last few weeks, state sponsored armed militia are being instigated to hit at cattle settlements in circumstances that can be best described as cattle rustling to the extent that it can create violence and anarchy as we prepare for this 2019 elections.

“The intention, we are sure is that the governor wants people to believe that Benue is still under threat of Fulani occupation.”

He noted that since the start of Operation Whirl Stroke in Benue, the crisis in the state had abated except some deliberate provocation by some armed militia in the guise of livestock guards.

He recalled that at INEC meeting to discuss voting points for IDPs in the state, it was agreed that all IDPs should return back to their homes for voting but “this did not go down well with the governor since he preferred elsewhere.”

“There was also an attempt for some people to vote at Torkula axis to allow for rigging of the election. Guma LGA chairman, Anthony Shawon suggested that Uvir ward should vote in Gbajimba but stakeholders opted for Iye. After losing the arrangement, the PDP deliberately decided to create anarchy in that area,” he said.

Utaan insisted that the APC in the state is convinced that those who carried out the attack on Iye, early hours of Thursday, were members of Livestock guards sponsored by the governor.

“It was a state sponsored violence on the people and not perpetrated by Fulani. We therefore urge the Federal Government to urgently disband and disarm the livestock or else, elections in Benue will be compromised.”

He further alleged that Gov. Ortom and PDP planned to cause violence in many areas of the state especially where they felt they do not have a grip saying adequate security should be provided in Benue for a violence free election.

Responding to allegations that he was sponsoring militia to kill his people, Gov. Samuel Ortom stated that the APC was heaping baseless accusations on him out of fear of defeat at the forthcoming polls.

Ortom who responded through his Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase said “the APC is clearly in a panic mood regarding the realities that is staring them in the face.

He said such statements were not befitting of a politician seeking to represent a people most of whom have lost their lives to herdsmen attacks and that Mr. Utaan lacked the justification to accuse the governor whose administration has signed the open grazing law to protect people of the state.

He said Mr. Utaan’s attack on governor Ortom was also to please the federal government to play down his purported investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC.

Mr. Terver Akase was of the opinion that if anyone was to be accused of herdsmen killings, it should be the APC that has failed woefully to protect the people of Benue against herders attacks and not the governor.

He also stated that if anyone was to be blamed for the attacks on Benue people, it would be the APC and their leader in the state, Senator George Akume.

The governor described Mr. Utaan’s comments as unpatriotic, insensitive and capable of disrupting the general elections.

On the call to disband the livestock guards, Mr. Akase, said the federal government did not have the right to dismantle the state livestock guards which was legitimately constituted, saying those calling for the proscription know nothing about the law and separation of powers.

He therefore called on security agencies to provide everyone in the state with adequate security now, during and after the elections.

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Re: APC Accuses Ortom Of Using Livestock Guard For Attacks In Benue by NaijaRoyalty(m): 9:34am On Feb 22, 2019
APC and false allegations


Useless devilish party

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Re: APC Accuses Ortom Of Using Livestock Guard For Attacks In Benue by slivertongue: 9:38am On Feb 22, 2019
APC are desperados

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Re: APC Accuses Ortom Of Using Livestock Guard For Attacks In Benue by MANNABBQGRILLS: 10:02am On Feb 22, 2019
This election should just come and go ALREADY please.
Enough of all these accusations and counter accusation!

ONLY SAI BABA WE KNOW.
SAI BABA WE LOVE.
SAI BABA WE WANT
.

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Re: APC Accuses Ortom Of Using Livestock Guard For Attacks In Benue by okpeechobu: 10:03am On Feb 22, 2019
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Re: APC Accuses Ortom Of Using Livestock Guard For Attacks In Benue by shachris05: 10:03am On Feb 22, 2019
When Miyetti Allah came to defend the attackers, those were livestock guards too?

APC should just shut up.

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Re: APC Accuses Ortom Of Using Livestock Guard For Attacks In Benue by Nobody: 10:03am On Feb 22, 2019
SO APC HAVE MOUTH TO TALK?
WE HAVE NOT FORGOTON

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Re: APC Accuses Ortom Of Using Livestock Guard For Attacks In Benue by Nobody: 10:03am On Feb 22, 2019
they just want to finish Benue people... now that they are protecting themselves

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Re: APC Accuses Ortom Of Using Livestock Guard For Attacks In Benue by carterguccy(m): 10:03am On Feb 22, 2019
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Re: APC Accuses Ortom Of Using Livestock Guard For Attacks In Benue by hargbolahan01: 10:04am On Feb 22, 2019
APC were not making allegations when herdsman are killing them but they are making allegations when governor is protecting his people from terrorists when the FG has failed

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Re: APC Accuses Ortom Of Using Livestock Guard For Attacks In Benue by eyeview: 10:04am On Feb 22, 2019
In IMO, Rochas and Uche Nwosu have created their own fake police and army and are fully armed in preparation for the election.

Hahaha bello has also set up a similar force in kogi state to deal with the opposition

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Re: APC Accuses Ortom Of Using Livestock Guard For Attacks In Benue by Seetto: 10:05am On Feb 22, 2019
Ortom failed in his responsibility to deliver well in Benue state, now using herdsmen/farmers crisis to gain cheap popularity,

I learnt Benue people are not willing to return him to power.

He is also alleged to have hands in some conspiracy involving the crisis.

Our politicians are devil incarnates..

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Re: APC Accuses Ortom Of Using Livestock Guard For Attacks In Benue by Lanre4uonly(m): 10:06am On Feb 22, 2019
Over to Governor Ortom for his reaction.
Re: APC Accuses Ortom Of Using Livestock Guard For Attacks In Benue by geloorrrrdd(m): 10:07am On Feb 22, 2019
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This election should just come and go ALREADY please.
Enough of all these accusations and counter accusation!

ONLY SAI BABA WE KNOW.
SAI BABA WE LOVE.
SAI BABA WE WANT
.
You and your lifeless baba would be kicked out of office. if I were you, I'd spend the last 30K salary very well. It's gonna be pretty tough for you.

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Re: APC Accuses Ortom Of Using Livestock Guard For Attacks In Benue by ChaleeBendel: 10:14am On Feb 22, 2019
While you're using the police, the army, Navy, airforce etc.
Re: APC Accuses Ortom Of Using Livestock Guard For Attacks In Benue by Caseless: 10:15am On Feb 22, 2019
angry


That squeeze-faced man called Ortom is deadly and cunning that he can do anything to gain sympathy votes. The only beneficiary of that crisis ravaging benue state is the governor.

He kept boasting of winning or telling us how APC is jittery because of the defeat they're about to suffer. Tell us what you have done to deserve another term again in office.

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Re: APC Accuses Ortom Of Using Livestock Guard For Attacks In Benue by AllenSpencer: 10:15am On Feb 22, 2019
post=75985596:
This election should just come and go ALREADY please.
Enough of all these accusations and counter accusation!

ONLY SAI BABA WE KNOW.
SAI BABA WE LOVE.
SAI BABA WE WANT
.


God bless Your Mother!

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Re: APC Accuses Ortom Of Using Livestock Guard For Attacks In Benue by EdidemOluomo: 10:15am On Feb 22, 2019
geloorrrrdd:
You and your lifeless baba would be kicked out of office. if I were you, I'd spend the last 30K salary very well. It's gonna be pretty tough for you.

Well said my brother.. The Idiot one has sold his or her soul for just 30k
Poverty dey o
Re: APC Accuses Ortom Of Using Livestock Guard For Attacks In Benue by AllenSpencer: 10:16am On Feb 22, 2019
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geloorrrrdd:
You and your lifeless baba would be kicked out of office. if I were you, I'd spend the last 30K salary very well. It's gonna be pretty tough for you.
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Re: APC Accuses Ortom Of Using Livestock Guard For Attacks In Benue by kernel001: 10:16am On Feb 22, 2019
naijapikin04:
https://nextedition.com.ng/2019/02/22/apc-accuses-ortom-using-livestock-guard-attacks-benue/

The All Progressive Congress, APC, in Benue state has accused the state government of sponsoring attacks in some part of the state using the Livestock Guard.

But the PDP has said the APC was making the accusation out of fear of failing the forthcoming elections

The APC House of Representatives Candidate for Makurdi/Guma Federal Constituency, Mr Conrad Terhide Utaan made the allegation on Thursday while briefing newsmen in reaction to the attacks in the community of Guma Local Government Area of Benue State.

He said he had called the press to draw attention to a very dangerous trend emerging in the state where, according to him, Gov. Samuel Ortom’s ineptitude to deliver on good governance, had made him desperate for survival.

He said that Gov Ortom had, recently, abandoned every single responsibility of governance and had gone into politics, making inflammatory statements that were inimical to the development of the state.

Utaan said rumours about Fulani herdsmen being attacked on the fringes of the Benue boundaries were deliberate provocations as the issues in the state were not necessarily between Fulani herdsmen and the farmers.

He noted that the Benue people have lived peacefully with Fulani before now acknowledging that the competition for arable land for farming and land for grazing had thrown up a lot of challenges between the two.

“As it is now, the Benue government has decided to turn this into a political tool to seek re-election. I have it on good authority that in the last few weeks, state sponsored armed militia are being instigated to hit at cattle settlements in circumstances that can be best described as cattle rustling to the extent that it can create violence and anarchy as we prepare for this 2019 elections.

“The intention, we are sure is that the governor wants people to believe that Benue is still under threat of Fulani occupation.”

He noted that since the start of Operation Whirl Stroke in Benue, the crisis in the state had abated except some deliberate provocation by some armed militia in the guise of livestock guards.

He recalled that at INEC meeting to discuss voting points for IDPs in the state, it was agreed that all IDPs should return back to their homes for voting but “this did not go down well with the governor since he preferred elsewhere.”

“There was also an attempt for some people to vote at Torkula axis to allow for rigging of the election. Guma LGA chairman, Anthony Shawon suggested that Uvir ward should vote in Gbajimba but stakeholders opted for Iye. After losing the arrangement, the PDP deliberately decided to create anarchy in that area,” he said.

Utaan insisted that the APC in the state is convinced that those who carried out the attack on Iye, early hours of Thursday, were members of Livestock guards sponsored by the governor.

“It was a state sponsored violence on the people and not perpetrated by Fulani. We therefore urge the Federal Government to urgently disband and disarm the livestock or else, elections in Benue will be compromised.”

He further alleged that Gov. Ortom and PDP planned to cause violence in many areas of the state especially where they felt they do not have a grip saying adequate security should be provided in Benue for a violence free election.

Responding to allegations that he was sponsoring militia to kill his people, Gov. Samuel Ortom stated that the APC was heaping baseless accusations on him out of fear of defeat at the forthcoming polls.

Ortom who responded through his Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase said “the APC is clearly in a panic mood regarding the realities that is staring them in the face.

He said such statements were not befitting of a politician seeking to represent a people most of whom have lost their lives to herdsmen attacks and that Mr. Utaan lacked the justification to accuse the governor whose administration has signed the open grazing law to protect people of the state.

He said Mr. Utaan’s attack on governor Ortom was also to please the federal government to play down his purported investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC.

Mr. Terver Akase was of the opinion that if anyone was to be accused of herdsmen killings, it should be the APC that has failed woefully to protect the people of Benue against herders attacks and not the governor.

He also stated that if anyone was to be blamed for the attacks on Benue people, it would be the APC and their leader in the state, Senator George Akume.

The governor described Mr. Utaan’s comments as unpatriotic, insensitive and capable of disrupting the general elections.

On the call to disband the livestock guards, Mr. Akase, said the federal government did not have the right to dismantle the state livestock guards which was legitimately constituted, saying those calling for the proscription know nothing about the law and separation of powers.

He therefore called on security agencies to provide everyone in the state with adequate security now, during and after the elections.


The APC full saying Ortom has been Instigating a fight between Benue and Fulani, should explain if Ortom staged the killing of 72 people, when he was in APC.

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Re: APC Accuses Ortom Of Using Livestock Guard For Attacks In Benue by Hadone(m): 10:16am On Feb 22, 2019
This is nothing but absolute TRUTH

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Re: APC Accuses Ortom Of Using Livestock Guard For Attacks In Benue by usmanbaba(m): 10:17am On Feb 22, 2019
Seetto:
Ortom failed in his responsibility to deliver well in Benue state, now using herdsmen/farmers crisis to gain cheap popularity,

I learnt Benue people are not willing to return him to power.

He is also alleged to have hands in some conspiracy involving the crisis.

Our politicians are devil incarnates..
Spot on
Re: APC Accuses Ortom Of Using Livestock Guard For Attacks In Benue by usmanbaba(m): 10:17am On Feb 22, 2019
Hadone:
This is nothing but absolute TRUTH
Truth
Re: APC Accuses Ortom Of Using Livestock Guard For Attacks In Benue by SamuelAnyawu(m): 10:20am On Feb 22, 2019
Ortom bleeped up big time. He failed to deliver in his first tenure.

JIME is now a strong force to contend with.

Buhari/Jime will definitely have a field day due to Ortom's laxity

Can Orkev-Jev defeat the great Dajoh Akume? Impossible Akume na life Senator grin


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Re: APC Accuses Ortom Of Using Livestock Guard For Attacks In Benue by Salvador1: 10:21am On Feb 22, 2019
AllenSpencer:
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dont cry foul if it turns against you
Re: APC Accuses Ortom Of Using Livestock Guard For Attacks In Benue by Kagawa10: 10:21am On Feb 22, 2019
This stupid Ortom hasn't even payed his workers salaries for years and you expect such leader to have the care of the people at heart? Las last, Ortom and Atiku are the one behind this herdsmen attack. Atiku is that desperate. Why has Atiku not say anything about the herdsmen apart from criticizing the farmer victims for erasing old grazing route?

When I see people supporting Atiku, I see thieves, liars, bigots or intellectual inept ignorant folks.

Thank God for Buhari coming in to stabilize us through this recession which happened because jonathan failed to save despite earning 60% more than Buhari. Note that there's a global fall in the price of crude oil (our main source of foreign earning) from $110 per barrel in 5 years under Jonathan to a paltry $50 per barrel under Buhari administration yet Buhari was able to give us many project such Railways, Baro port, Revival of fertilizer mills etc as well as keeping us afloat through the recession while surprising Iweala and Soludo who all predicted recession in the coming years regardless who wins between Jonathan and Buhari in 2015 because the looting Jonathan failed to save despite the much revenue accrued from the Oil boom we had under Jona. other Oil countries such as Venezuela and Angola are having it worse than us.

PDP, Neva again.

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Re: APC Accuses Ortom Of Using Livestock Guard For Attacks In Benue by nkwuocha: 10:22am On Feb 22, 2019
Benue people go get sense las las

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