Ortom won’t be distracted by latter day media attacks – Akase

The Chief Press Secretary to Benue state Governor, Mr Terver Akase has said his boss Samuel Ortom ,will never allow the All ProgressivesCongress’s latter day media attacks distract his administration from providing good governance to his people.
Akase made this known while reacting to reports credited to APC National Chairman, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, accusing Governor Samuel Ortom of ineptitude in the discharge of his duties as chief security officer of his state.
Oshiomhole, in a the report published Saturday in some national dailies, was also alleged to have accused Governor Ortom of using the security situation in Benue to make personal gains by spending higher than necessary, noting that the governor is a failure and that the APC was relieved that he left.
But Akase in press statement made available to newsmen weekend in Makurdi, said the APC National Chairman’s sudden aggression towards Governor Ortom has only revealed among other things, the true oppressive intentions of the ruling party APC against Nigerians.
He said with the comments, the APC National Chairman appeared to be flying a kite of an agenda to intimidate and suppress Nigerians who desired freedom from a party which clearly failed to secure lives and property, thereby ushering in an orgy of violence never before witnessed in the history of the country.
Akase, also he noted that Oshiomhole’s diatribe against Ortom, also brought to bear the plot hatched by APC leaders within and outside Benue to throw the state into political crisis ahead of the 2019 elections.
“Comrade Oshiomhole ought to be telling Nigerians why they should vote for APC next year instead of embarking on a voyage of attacks on perceived opponents.
“His unprovoked attack on Governor Ortom and other members of the opposition has not translated to a single vote for the APC.
“A man of supposed high political stature like Oshiomhole should rather be out to court the sympathy of the very few key actors still left in the APC even in the face of unprecedented frustration by anomalies in the party instead of launching laughable verbal assaults on those who can no longer stand the strange happenings within the party.
“Insulting almost all those who have left due to the party’s inability to address their grievances would only convince those yet to make up their minds that they are truly in the wrong place.
“We advise the embattled chairman to get busy with the job of his office and minimize his divisive and hatefilled statements.
On allegations accusing Ortom of making gains from security votes Akase, explained that governor Ortom has not done anything outside the laid down procedures in addressing security challenges by a state governor.
“Benue people know who their killers are, and the attackers are believed to be sponsored by Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore and other Miyetti Allah groups,” the statement said.