Buhari orders detailed investigation into attack on Governor Ortom
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered fully investigation into reported attack on Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom.
Governor Ortom had on Saturday recounted to Nigerians how gun men attacked him while he was on his to his farm. He said the attempt on his life by the hoodlums.
President Buhari on Sunday condemned the attack calling ordering a thorough and transparent investigation. He stated that “whoever is linked to it should be caught and be made to face the law.”
The President who spoke through a statement signed by Mallam Garba Shehu, one of his spokesmen, sympathized with Governor Ortom and the people of Benue State and cautioned against politicizing the attack noting that an attack on one Nigerian is an attack on all.
SEE FULL STATEMENT BELOW:
PRESIDENT BUHARI CONDEMNS ATTACK ON GOVERNOR SAMUEL ORTOM , ORDERS THOROUGH, TRANSPARENT INVESTIGATION
President Muhammadu Buhari strongly condemns the attack on Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, saying the string of brutal attacks on individuals and communities in the state, with the latest one targeting the governor, was unacceptable.
The President welcomes 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.
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 politicised, 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,” the president directed.
Garba Shehu
Senior Special Assistant to the President
(Media & Publicity)
March 21, 2021
