By Valentine Amanze, Online Editor
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, is thanking God and his security personnel for preventing gunmen, suspected to be herdsmen, from killing him at Tyo Mu along Makurdi/Gboko road in Makurdi Local Government Area of the state at the weekend.
Confirming the attack, Ortom, who described the gunmen as “herdsmen”, said about 15 of them trailed him to the river bank where he was on foot, while praising his gallant security details that were just about six for responding promptly before providing cover for him to return to safety.
The governor also alleged that the leadership of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore was behind the attack, stressing that he has contacted his lawyer on the issue.
His words: “My lawyer is going to make a petition against the leadership of MACBAN because they came out to target me and behind the scene, they are planning to eliminate me on my own land.
“If I can’t go to the farm as governor with entire security around me then who else can go to the farm? You can imagine the pains that we have here in Benue State.
“I appreciate the security personnel attached to me they were able to repel them and they could not have access to me.”
He said that troops of Operation Whirl Stroke, the police, and DSS had been mobilised to the forest between Tyo-Mu and Abinse where the armed herdsmen are camped to comb the area.
He also called for the arrest and prosecution of the leadership of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore who only last week, gathered in Yola, the Adamawa State capital, to single him out for assassination.
Besides, Ortom asked President Muhammadu Buhari and the security chiefs to expect a formal petition from his lawyers and move quickly to arrest the situation.
