Groups allege assassinate plot against Benue State Governor
There are fears of assassination plot against Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom and the Clerk of the state House of Assembly, Torese Agena, after the failed impeachment plot against the governor, groups have allege.
Tiv Youth Organisation (TYO) according to its president, Timothy Hembaor, alleged that enemies of the state may have concluded arrangements to outrightly eliminate Ortom having failed to impeach him.
According to him, the idea was muted sometime ago, but its implementation was pushed to 2019 when, by the plotters’ calculation, Ortom would no longer be the governor.
“This was the thinking, which led to the instruction that Governor Ortom be denied the APC (All Progressives congress) governorship ticket,” he said.
Another group, the Benue Youth Forum, has also alleged that a move to kidnap the Clerk of the House Agena, has been uncovered.
According to the President of the group, Terrence Kuanum, efforts have been intensified by the police and Department of State Services (DSS) to kidnap the Clerk of the state House of Assembly at all costs to force him to conduct an illegal sitting of the assembly so the plotters can achieve their aim.
“Information available to us indicates that plain clothes detectives have been deployed to the House of Assembly to execute the plan. Civil servants working at the Assembly complex have been subjected to constant harassment by weird looking security operatives,” Kuanum said.
