Benue State Governor, Samuel
Ortom, has said his Plateau State counterpart, Simon Lalong was using the
recent attacks on Benue indigenes to score cheap political point.
Ortom said Lalong’s claim that he
warned him (Ortom) against signing the anti open grazing bill into law was a
cheap blackmail.
Lalong had on Thursday disclosed
that he warned Benue State governor Samuel Ortom against implementing
anti-grazing law.
Reacting to Lalong’s claim, Ortom
said the Plateau governor does not have the right to warn him because he was
not his staff.
His words, “How can you warn me?
Am I the governor of Plateau State, Or am I his staff? Do I work for him? I’m
Governor of Benue State, and my responsibility is to do what my people want.
That is what democracy is.
“So when you and castigate people
about because you were induced by someone, and you come out to make those kind
of statements, then it’s unfortunate.
“Remember, this is the same man,
a double standard person, who told me when I visited Jos three weeks ago, he
told me that he is under pressure by his people to do the same law that I did
in Benue State. He told me this, he never warned me anywhere. He’s just trying
to use that to blackmail me, what crime have I committed.”
Ortom continued: “Is this how we
want to continue as a country? Where some people are given privilege to be
lawless?”
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