PDP Governors Meet In Benue

The governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have met in Makurdi, with the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom.

The Director-General of the PDP Governors’ Forum, Cyril Maduabum, said the governors will discuss a number of issues and would come up with an implementable blueprint for tackling insecurity and sundry criminality facing the nation.

Maduabum noted that the meeting would also afford the governors an opportunity to review the state of the party.

Sources stated that the visit might be connected with recent communal clashes between communities in Konshisha and Oju Local Government Areas leading to the death of at least two soldiers and other civilians.

The governor asked members of those communities to expose perpetrators of the unprovoked attacks on the military, in a statement, he personally signed on Friday

He said: “I have already directed leaders of the affected areas to ensure that the weapons the bandits took away from the military personnel deployed to bring peace between the warring communities are returned without delay.”

 “Such an act is condemnable and also capable of jeopardizing the efforts Government has made to guarantee the return of peace to the area.”

“Our administration is determined to see the end of the crisis and will support security agencies to fish out those fomenting trouble.

“I however urge the military to avoid civilian casualties and protect law-abiding people while efforts are on to recover their missing weapons,” He added,