In another development, President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has condemned the attack on Benue State Governor, SAMUEL ORTOM just as he backed the deployment of a “high-level team of crack investigators” sent by the police headquarters to the state.
Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen had attacked the governor’s convoy on Saturday at Tyo Mu, along Makurdi-Gboko road.
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) had accused the president of being silent on the attack saying it calls for serious concern.
The PDP described the attack as an attempted assassination.
A statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, KOLA OLOGBONDIYAN alleged that there is a plot by the ruling All Progressives Congress to disintegrate the country through banditry and electoral violence, citing Ekiti-bye-election where three people died on Saturday.
However, reacting on Sunday, the president described the attack as unacceptable but warned that the incident should not be politicized.
In a statement by presidential spokesman, GARBA SHEHU, the president said there should be an open and transparent investigation and whoever is linked to it should be caught and be made to face the law.
It added that an attack on any citizen is an attack on all Nigerians.
