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Presidency: Samuel Ortom’s claims against security forces untrue

The Presidency has described as false, a statement credited to Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, that President Muhammadu Buhari reportedl...

Chima Joseph Ugo
Chima Joseph Ugo - Editor-in-chief September 01, 2022
Updated September 1, 2022 at 9:49 AM
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Presidency: Samuel Ortom’s claims against security forces untrue
The Presidency has described as false, a statement credited to Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, that President Muhammadu Buhari reportedly ordered security agents not to move against violent Fulani herders.

Garba Shehu, the senior special assistant to the president for media and publicity, declared that top security officials wouldn't divulge highly sensitive information to the governor.

Read the entire statement:

ORTOM’S LIES INSULT NATION’S SECURITY SYSTEM

In a recent interview, the Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, claimed that high ranking security personnel had informed him personally that President Buhari had ordered security forces not to move against the Fulani herdsmen responsible for recent violence. These ridiculous claims are patently untrue. If he is as brave as he claims to be, let him name names. Let him name the military personnel who told him this story or forever shut up.

It is disappointing that Ortom, who in the same interview describes himself as a child of God who believes in being lawful and respects the Nigerian constitution, felt the need to spread such a divisive lie. In a period of heightened insecurity, our politicians should be working to bring us closer together, not risking further violence by dishonestly seeking to further divide us along ethnic or religious lines.

Fortunately, the cheap, dog whistle politics behind Ortom’s falsehood are plain for all to see. He is not the first opportunistic politician who has attempted to sow discord amongst his country’s people in the run-up to an election; sadly, he will not be the last.

The Nigerian people will see him for what he is: an opportunist flaunting his wares as the country prepares to elect its next president; a man fond of posing in military fatigue who expects the country to believe Nigeria’s top security personnel would share high-level confidential information with him. To be clear: they do not.

Garba Shehu
Senior Special Assistant to the President
(Media & Publicity)
August 31, 2022
Tags: Nigeria

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