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Chief Press Secretary to Benue State Governor, Mr Terver Akase, has dismissed media reports that the governor’s relation is being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.... Read more via TODAY.NG – https://ift.tt/2OZE4E4 Get More Nigeria Political News

Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom has described the freezing of the state accounts by Economic and Financial Crime Commission ( EFCC) as part of political witch- hunt and victimisation being plotted against him, even as he said, such move will have a negative toll on the state. … Read more...

The plot to frustrate Governor Samuel Ortom after his daring move to defect from the All Progressives Congress, APC, to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, took a dramatic turn Tuesday following indication that the state government’s bank accounts have been frozen by the Economic and … Read...

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue has raised allegation against the inspector-general of police, Ibrahim Idris, accusing him of withdrawing police personnel deployed to protect the Internally Displaced Persons in the state. Tribune reports that Ortom said on Wednesday, August … Read more via...

Benue youths, under the auspices of Idoma All Progressives Congress (APC) Young Stakeholders, have warned Governor Samuel Ortom to stop blaming President Muhammadu Buhari for his.... Read more via – The Sun Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2OBdIrz Get More Nigeria Political News

Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue state, says the probe of his security vote spending by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is a case of persecution. The EFCC had accused Ortom of misappropriating about N19 billion meant for security agencies deployed to Benue to tackle the...

Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, announced his defection from the All Progressives Congress to the Peoples Democratic Party on Wednesday. Tambuwal has increased the number of the APC governors to leave the ruling party to three. Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State and his counterpart …...

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has hailed the Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal for taking a bold step for democracy by dumping the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Secondus, who was reacting to Wednesday’s announcement by Governor...

The Presidency, yesterday, exonerated President Muhammadu Buhari from the impeachment notice served on Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State by eight of the 30 members of the state House of Assembly..... Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2LEUWlj Get More Nigeria Political News

Youths in Benue State have raised alarm over planned protests in the state against Governor Samuel Ortom. Terrence Kuanum, President, Benue Youth Forum, in a statement on Tuesday, accused “enemies of Benue” of embarking on plan B which is mass demonstration against ortom..... Read more via...

8 out of 30 lawmakers in the Benue House of Assembly served the Governor with a notice of impeachment on Monday. Youths in Benue state under the aegis of Benue Youth Alliance For Ortom (BYAFO) 2019 have warned former Governor, George Akume … Read more via pulse.ng – Nigeria’s entertainment...

According to a report by Vanguard, the workers at the Benue state House of Assembly were Tuesday morning chased out of their various offices and duty posts by stern looking armed police personnel who also sealed off the Assembly complex. This came on the heels of Monday’s crisis … Read...

The immediate past President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, has faulted the attempt to impeach Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State as... Read more via Channels Television – https://ift.tt/2v32GmT Get More Nigeria Political News

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has described the purported service of impeachment notice on Benue Governor, Dr Samuel Ortom, by eight members of the House of Assembly as “awkward political development’’. Abubakar said that any attempt to disregard the rule of law and the Constitution...

Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki and Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, have described as “a desecration of the legislative sanctity”, the on-going situation in Benue State in which eight out of the 30 members of the State House of Assembly have commenced...

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has condemned the political development in Benue State where lawmakers of the All Progressives Congress launched a bid to impeach Governor Samuel Ortom. The lawmakers, not more than 10 of the 30-member Assembly were provided cover by the Nigeria Police …...

The recent gale of defections by top ranking members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has sparked..... Read more via Sahara Reporters – https://ift.tt/2LJeDaW Get More Nigeria Political News

The ruling All Progressives Congress is still at the receiving end of the ever-open political transfer window in Nigeria. Thirteen out of the 23 local government chairmen in Benue State have defected from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Their...

In his response to claims by APC national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole that the party would be defeated if he’s fielded in 2019, Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State expressed surprise that barely one week after Oshiomhole described him as “a star of the APC”, he was now casting aspersions …...

The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC has lashed out at the Benue state Governor, Dr Samuel Ortom, saying his decision to leave the APC was good riddance to bad rubbish..... Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2LxKr3r Get More Nigeria Political News