Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has warned that elections will not hold in 2023 if security challenges in the country persist.
Mr Ortom stated this on Tuesday when he visited President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
He thanked the president for condemning the attack on his farm but said that “there will be no 2023 elections in Nigeria if insecurity persists”.
Speaking with journalists after the meeting, Ortom said Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gun powder without meaningful progress being made on the issue of security.
On the question of reports alleging that attacks on his convoy was a pseudo claim, the governor explicitly appealed to everyone not to politicise the issue of attempted assassination on his person.
While asserting that he has not done anything wrong in enacting an anti-open grazing law beneficial to the state, he said the demand by the cattle breeders association, Miyetti Allah, to repel the law would be impossible to fulfill, because it went through due process, hence the matter is clearly beyond him.
