The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) on Sunday night ordered a full scale investigation into the recent attack on Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom.
Buhari disclosed that he welcomed the dispatch of a high level team of crack investigators from the Police headquarters in Abuja to look into the attack with a view to uncover the perpetratrors behind the attacks and bring them to justice.
This was contained in a statement issued by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu in Abuja.
He declared that the string of brutal attacks on individuals and communities in the state, with the latest one targeting the governor, was unacceptable.
In expressing his sympathies, and that of the government of the federation to Governor Ortom and all Benue indigenes, President Buhari said the unfortunate incident must not be politicized, reiterating that an attack on one Nigerian is an attack on all Nigerians.
“Let there be open and transparent investigation and whoever is linked to it should be caught and be made to face the law,” the President directed.
