Buhari condemns attack on Gov Ortom, orders thorough investigation

By allcitynews.ng

Apparently disturbed by the attack on Governor Samuel Ortom, President Muhammadu Buhari has strongly condemned the attack.

Buhari, in the message sent to allcitynews.ng few minutes ago by Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media & Publicity) ordered thorough investigations into the attack.

In the message, Buhari lamented that the string of brutal attacks on individuals and communities in the state, with the latest one targeting the governor, was unacceptable.

The President welcomed the dispatch of a high level team of crack investigators to the state from the Police Headquarters in Abuja, urging the officers to uncover who, or whatsoever, was behind the attacks and bring them to justice.

In expressing his sympathies, and that of the government of the federation to Governor Ortom and all Benue State indigenes, President Buhari said the unfortunate incident must not be politicized, reiterating that an attack on one Nigerian is an attack on all Nigerians.

The President directed the Police to undertake a thorough investigation into the incident involving the governor and into all such incidents affecting individuals and communities in the state.

Accordingly, Buhari stressed “Let there be open and transparent investigation and whoever is linked to it should be caught and be made to face the law.”