President Muhammadu Buhari has added his voice to the condemnation of the attack on Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, pointing out that it was unacceptable.
The President decried the string of vicious attacks on individuals and communities in Benue, with the latest one targeting the governor.
Buhari’s condemnation was contained in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, issued late Sunday night in Abuja.
Mallam Shehu in the statement said that the President 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.
Ortom on Saturday came under gunfire attacks while on his way to his farm on the outskirts of Makurdi, the state capital. He had to run over 1.5km under cover by his security details, who repelled the attackers.
Ortom blamed the attack on herdsmen, saying the attackers numbered up to 15.
“In expressing his sympathies, and that of the government of the federation to Governor Ortom and all Benue indigenes, President Buhari said the unfortunate incident must not be politicized, reiterating that an attack on one Nigerian is an attack on all Nigerians,” Shehu wrote.
“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 an open and transparent investigation and whoever is linked to it should be caught and be made to face the law,” the President directed.
