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Who is the puppy Chief Press secretary that wants to match words with Wike?

tribalistseun:
Oga explain why fulanis are roasting your people like suya

Ask Omenkalives.

What a nice way to nail Wike

Ur people are being killed ur there insulting Wike...... kontinue

mashin:
What has Wike done to stop the killings in his own state.

Big question!

0b10010011:
What a nice way to nail Wike

Ortom should rather nail the rampaging Fulanis and not Wike...Rubbish!!!

NextGovernor:


Which election did APC win key positions and areas? Maybe the same spare worrying your Governor is still worrying you.. Go pray and deliver yourself and your Governor 1st.

you dey mind the mumu man

Benue state has become a disgrace. My friend from there was lamenting the ineptitude and gross let down that Ortom had become but I didn't believe.

This just proves my guy correct. Ortom that appointed a man with Primary School Certificate as commissioner and tried to justify it. SMH sha

Useless Governor. Wike, as uncouth as he is, stated the gospel truth and the sickly response from a government whose people are being pummeled is that Wike needs prayer.

Dem don get Ortom. Benue is in trouble.

This response is highly political.......Governor Wike is absolutely right! Benue state is the most affected state in respect to Fulani herdsmen wahala in the whole nation and Governor Ortom's attitude towards the issue is largely lackadaisical and he needs to be more proactive.

Even Governor Fayose with the assistance of Ekiti lawmakers established a security outfit to checkmate this deadly northerners from killing innocent people.

It is high time we do the needful in Nigeria and stop inputting politics in everything!

God bless Nigeria!

lazsnaira:
...if this govnor and his crew spent as much time and energy as expended in writing this rejoinder in strategising and planning how to push back the fulanis before they annihilate the entire tribes and clans in benue state

I am telling you. So they can talk against Wike but can't speak against attacks going on in their zone.
After all the rant what next - only mouth action I guess).

mashin:

This is the second time that Governor Wike has launched unwarranted attacks on the person and office of Governor Ortom since he travelled with his colleagues, the Progressive Governors to Port Harcourt in December last year to campaign for All Progressives Congress, APC candidates in the Rivers re-run National Assembly election. The APC won in key areas where Wike had declared war before the polls and he obviously has not forgiven the APC governors, particularly Governor Ortom.

Please where did APC won election in the key areas of Rivers Sate?

I pity the people of Benue state, that Ortom is not fit to be a principal talk less governor

omogin:
With all the bright minds in benue can't believe someone like ortom is the gov of that state

But one omenkalives makes this your assertion questionable.

Benue state is paying the price for electing a clueless selfish bandit. This man appointed Gana , the person responsible for the killing of his own kinsmen to his cabinet. He enriched and empowered the illiterate who is now terrorizing people from his hiding place.
The Gana and his boys are probably responsble for 5 times the number of deaths than are being reported.
The same useless governor who will not pay salaries but buy SUVs for political office holders and build 30 billion Naira airport , supposedly for export of crops. What a pity.

Truely my Gov Wike needs deliverance. In 1 week 20 persons have died in Ogoni killed by unknown gun men as i speak nobody is in that community, he never talk about it, in 1 week 20 market women were kidnapped in Omoku till date no news. Last Dec rerun 6 policemen were buried alive in Rivers state, Yet he has the infantry to talk about benue. Very laughable

@Terver Akase.
You are a big fool for writing that rubbish as a response to Wike. The crux of the matter is this. Those herdsmen are terrorists. The language of peace they don't understand or cherish. Tell Ortom to apply Fayose's measures. Extraordinary problems require extraordinary measures. Don't be daft!

Kathmandu:
So omenkalives is one of the bright mind

So ortom na omenkalives uncle eh? Now I know dat his zombiism is hereditary...

MikeB3:
This response is highly political.......Governor Wike is absolutely right! Benue state is the most affected state in respect to Fulani herdsmen wahala in the whole nation and Governor Ortom's attitude towards the issue is largely lackadaisical and he needs to be more proactive.

Even Governor Fayose with the assistance of Ekiti lawmakers established a security outfit to checkmate this deadly northerners from killing innocent people.

It is high time we do the needful in Nigeria and stop inputting politics in everything!

God bless Nigeria!

EXACTLY!

See monkey dey talk...

Last year precisely in August 2016, US declared Rivers as one of the Unsafe states in Nigeria asking her citizens to avoid the state, Benue was not included, why was state emergency not an option on the lips of Wike, when it comes to death Rivers has recorded more deaths resulting from cultism, election violence, Corpers don't even partake in Rivers elections again, death is death why can't he stop it etc wike has so much corruption allegations on his neck, how can such a Governor advise another.

1shortblackboy:
Ur people are being killed ur there insulting Wike...... kontinue

Can you imagine! Dude has given a litany of measures taken by Ortom. The question is: How effective are the so-called measures? How long has this mess been going on? That response is not important. If you apply measures and they are yielding minimal or no result, change tactics. Take proactive and radical measures. Simple.

mashin:
WIKE NEEDS PRAYERS OF DELIVERANCE

We read on the front page of today's Daily Sun newspaper a report credited to Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, calling for a declaration of a state of emergency in Benue State. He said his call was based on the current security situation in the state. Governor Wike who is expected to know the powers and limits of a state governor with regard to security matters, without any provocation whatsoever, attacked his counterpart, Governor Samuel Ortom over his handling of unfortunate security developments in Benue State.

If indeed Governor Wike granted the interview in the manner reported by the newspaper, then his utterances are jaundiced and reckless. What he therefore needs are prayers for deliverance. His call which implies the dismantling of democracy structures and military takeover in Benue State has exposed him as a man who does not believe in civil rule. He has thus lost the basis of being a democratically elected governor.

This is the second time that Governor Wike has launched unwarranted attacks on the person and office of Governor Ortom since he travelled with his colleagues, the Progressive Governors to Port Harcourt in December last year to campaign for All Progressives Congress, APC candidates in the Rivers re-run National Assembly election. The APC won in key areas where Wike had declared war before the polls and he obviously has not forgiven the APC governors, particularly Governor Ortom.

Perhaps Governor Wike needs to be educated on the efforts his counterpart in Benue has made to ensure security in Benue State.
Governor Ortom was the first to declare amnesty to armed youths in his inaugural speech on 29th May, 2015. The disarmament programme resulted in the recovery of over 600 arms and ammunition with about 800 youths embracing the amnesty initiative.

Governor Ortom has made sustained efforts to promote peace between farmers and herdsmen as well as deepening inter-state peace building efforts with Taraba and Nasarawa States. The Governor's contacts with the Presidency, Chief of Army Staff and Inspector General of police resulted in the deployment of troops to curb the herders and farmers crisis in Agatu, Tarka, Makurdi, Logo, Buruku, Guma and Gboko local government areas.
He has purchased patrol vehicles for police and other security agencies and prevailed on the military authorities to establish a special brigade to fight the invasion of Benue communities.

The Governor has inaugurated security committees at the state, local government, ward and kindred levels to tackle security challenges at each of those levels.
Governor Ortom has consistently been advocating the establishment of ranches as a permanent solution to end the clashes between farmers and herdsmen and has consequently sent an executive bill on anti-open grazing prohibition and establishment of ranches bill to the State House of Assembly. Public hearings on the bill are ongoing in the three senatorial districts of the state.

When armed Fulani herdsmen invaded Buruku and Gboko local government areas last week, the Governor visited promply and ensured their exit from the area.
His efforts have led to the rescue of people, especially children from kidnappers and has provided support for the Civilian Joint Task Force and the vigilante groups in the state to complement the efforts of conventional security agencies.

Following Governor Ortom's visit to Zaki-Biam on Tuesday this week and the quick action he took, security has been beefed up to restore peace in the affected areas.
Arrests of some suspects have also been made besides assistance given to victims to access sustained and better medical attention.

On the other hand, there are reports that over 400 people believed to be mostly members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have been killed, with some beheaded in Omoku community and its environs in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni local government area of Rivers State by cultists that were recruited and armed by Governor Nyelsom Wike and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

During the December 10, 2016 re-run election in Rivers State, a police officer, DSP Alkali was beheaded and his driver shot dead and buried in a shallow grave at Ijiji community in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni LGA.
As we speak, no fewer than 200 people have been killed and several communities destroyed in Ogoni area of Rivers State by cultists who were reportedly armed by Wike and the PDP.

In 2016, Wike organised amnesty programme for known cultists in the state, but deliberately refused to recover arms and other dangerous weapons from cultists in Ogoni with the hope of using them for the December 10, 2016 election, which the PDP lost in Ogoniland.
So, after the elections, the cultists now turned the guns against their fellow Ogoni brothers, killing and maiming on daily basis.

Recall that the report of the joint panel set up by the Inspector-General of Police to investigate the violence during the December 10, 2016 re-run election indicted Governor Wike for his role in the attack and harassment of electoral officers who refused to do his bidding during the election.
No fewer than 23 officials of INEC, who were bribed by Governor Wike to rig the polls for the PDP are currently standing trial at the Federal High Court in Abuja.

Before the December 10, 2016 re-run election, Governor Wike was caught on tape threatening to kill officials of INEC who refused to rig the election in favour of his party.
Late last year, Governor Wike prevented operatives of the DSS from effecting the arrest of Federal High Court judges who were accused of corruption.
Governor Wike has also openly identified with militants and as we speak, no fewer than six known militants are either members of the Rivers State House of Assembly or chairmen of local government councils in Rivers State.

For a man who presides over a state where thugs reign supreme, terrorizing innocent people in all local government areas of the state, Governor Wike clearly lacks moral justification to point accusing finger at Governor Ortom. Rivers is the only state in the country at the moment where youths corps members can no longer take part in the conduct of elections . It is on record that Governor Wike recently warned every corps member posted to his state for elections to write their wills before accepting the responsibility. Allegations that a corps member was murdered in Ahoada on his orders are rife.
He therefore has no reason to call for emergency rule in another state. If state of emergency is to be declared in any state of the federation, that state is Nyesom Wike's Rivers.

His blatant disregard for the rule of law is known to all. That's one unique difference between him and Governor Ortom. While the Rivers Governor takes pleasure in bloodbath, Governor Ortom is a peace-loving leader who employs dialogue and other conflict resolution approaches to end crisis in his state.
Governor Wike's call for emergency rule is therefore not only diversionary but also devoid of any shred of reasoning befitting the status of a man trusted with the responsibility of leading a state. We advise the embattled Governor to face the numerous charges of election fraud, rigging and violence leveled against him by Rivers people and leave Benue State alone. Benue is currently in the hands of a God-fearing Governor who is working tirelessly to guarantee the safety of lives and property.

Signed:
Terver Akase
Chief Press Secretary
March 23, 2017.

I am not surprised by this response. Personally, I believe the governor does not understand a lot of things bodering on security. As a governor, he is the Chief Security Officer (CSO) of a state. The function of a CSO is to prevent crimes from happening in the first place. The only way a CSO can try to prevent crime is adopting a strategic approach to crime fighting and not trying to give excuses why such crime happened. The governor to a large extent has not been strategic in fighting crime in benue state. Rather the governor has adopted a "prayer approach" which has failed and is responsible for the large number of violence related deaths in the state since 2015. If nothing, the Governor Ortom, should consult with Lagos state on their model on crime prevention .
Lagos state approach to crime prevention has been very strategic and has so far reduced crime signifcantly. Looking at model has three major areas of concentration. Firstly, the policemen are motivated by been paid a second salary from the state government. This is exclusive of Federal government salary.
Secondly, the police force in Lagos to a large extent are equipped with modern communication gadgets and vehicles, especially Amoured Personnel Carriers (APC). Thirdly, the most important of all, the police are engaged in 24 hours routine and unscheduled patrols all over the state, especially violent hotspots
The state has emergency lines that citizens in distress can call.
Benue state lacks all the above. The governor needs to invest heavily on security and not by been "God-loving", otherwise the state will become ungovernable.

The Governor has limitations on the use of Police and the Millitary, the Commander In Chief has the overall power and has ordered the deployment of security to Benue

Oga explain why fulanis are roasting your people like suya.

Because he is a peace-loving leader,

@Pokipoki.
You are so on point. Read my comment above. Changing tactics and being strategic is the crux of the matter here.

Chief Press Secretary or weytin then call you...! allow Wike to speak the truth. Did Governor Ortom actually won APC primary election or he stole Barr. Jime's mandate? Remove the log in your eyes before you think of removing Wike's Own. God bless Governor Nyelson Wike.

Gang war/cult war between Rival groups in the same community is one thing, getting Killed in your village by marauding fulani islamic terrorists is another.

While both are bad, they arent the same thing. Ortom please take charge and ensure the safety of the life of Benue indigenes who are repeatedly being massacred by strangers to your state.

I am based in Benue state and I am an indigene of Benue state, not only should de military take over...they should arrest every living politicians from de state and hound them into kiriki and killed at once especially de current ape lookin governor of mine