Dead government – Ortom reacts as terrorists vow to kidnap Buhari, others

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has reacted to the recent threat by bandits that they would soon kidnap President Muhammadu Buhari and other top politicians.

Ortom said the threat is a clear indication that there is no government in Nigeria.

The Governor who spoke Monday while addressing an expanded Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, stakeholders meeting in Makurdi observed that “today bandits are threatening to kidnap our President and others and we are all relaxed.

“If they can threaten our President, who is safe? I had raised the alarm before now warning that if we do not take decisive action against these bandits and terrorists they might one day attack the seat of power like it happened in Afghanistan and they resorted to abusing me. But we all can see what is happening now.

“We must note that ISWAP, Boko Haram, ISIS and Fulani herdsmen are all the same thing and they are being sponsored, let no one deceive us.

“How can you explain to me that the Federal Government does not have the might to tackle these terrorists. I saw the video of how the abducted train passengers including women and children were being whipped and I wept. What is their sin? This should not be happening in my generation. What is happening to our country?

“Are you telling me that there are no military or security agencies to rescue these people? Where has this type of thing happened in the entire world? In America they will not allow their own to remain in the hands of kidnappers just as they did in Niger, they went and rescued their own, why can’t we do the same thing for our own people?

“And somebody will tell me that there is a government in this country. There is no government in Nigeria today. Those people who are deceiving the President that he is doing well are all criminals.

“They are deceiving him; the President must know that all is not well and he is not doing well as the President of Nigeria.”