A SEA OF DESPAIR

Reckons that the Benue State Government could do more for its people

to drive his second term agenda whenever Benue people decide for him even when he had recently stated he had banned his political activities in the face of the herdsmen/ farmers crisis. If I may ask, when did Benue decide for Ortom to join the All Progressives Congress? And if the governor thinks that he can return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), I dare say that that will signpost his political suicide because the PDP vehicle already has drivers.

Benue people must properly situate the current herdsmen/ farmers crisis at the doorstep of Governor Ortom’s leadership inertia. A Benue State government controlled by the APC failing to do the needful effective communication and relationship with a federal government controlled by same APC, only has itself to blame. When some of us complained of the dangerous activities of the marauding Fulani herdsmen in Agatu local government, Governor Ortom’s surrogates characterised us as meddlesome interlopers, claiming we did not come from Agatu and that we were crying more than the bereaved. And now Governor Ortom asking Benue people to defend themselves is a clear admission of failure. It is unacceptable and definitely will put Benue people on the harm’s way.

Now the federal government has deployed soldiers and other security agents to mitigate the crisis and Governor Ortom rather than harness and cooperate with security operatives to resolve the crisis, he is egoistically insisting he was not formally informed. We must put a stop to this ego massaging and playing of politics with the lives of Benue people. Governor Ortom must be reminded that the concern and empathy that Benue people, the Nigerian people and indeed, the world are showing is to the magnitude of the waste of innocent lives of citizens and property, the misery of Benue people and not to his leadership ineptitude, and his shedding of crocodile tears.

The day of reckoning is beckoning!