By Ismaila Chafe/Emmanuel Mogbede
Abuja, March 21, 2021
President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the attack on Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue, saying the brutal attacks on individuals and communities in the state, with the latest one targeting the governor, was unacceptable.
The President said this in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Sunday.
Buhari welcomed the dispatch of a high level team of crack investigators to the state from the Police headquarters in Abuja, urging the officers to uncover who, or whatsoever, was behind the attacks and bring them to justice.
He also expressed his sympathies, and that of the government of the federation to Ortom and Benue indigenes.
Buhari, however, maintained that the unfortunate incident must not be politicized, reiterating that ”an attack on one Nigerian is an attack on all Nigerians.”
The president directed the Police to undertake a thorough investigation into the incident involving the governor and into all such incidents affecting individuals and communities in the state.
“Let there be open and transparent investigation and whoever is linked to it should be caught and be made to face the law,” he further directed.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) also stressed the need for all to collaborate with security operatives to end criminality in all forms in the country.
The party said this in its statement by Sen. John Akpanudoedehe, the National Secretary of its Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), on Sunday in Abuja.
Akpanudoedehe said this while condemning Saturday’s attack on the convoy of Gov. Ortom.
He, however, thanked God for Ortom’s safety and praised his security details for repelling the attack.
He expressed confidence that the security services would do everything to unravel the criminals behind the attack and bring them to book.
“The APC reiterates that we must all collaborate to end criminality in all forms, a crime is a crime and should not be politicised in any way,” he said.
