Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom yesterday vowed to fight the killing of his people by invading terrorist herdsmen with the last pint of his blood.
The governor also raised the alarm that some Fulani elites in the country are targeting to eliminate him.
Ortom who disclosed this while addressing a world press conference at Government House in Makurdi, said the plot to eliminate him is allegedly being masterminded by former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Alhaji Lamido Sanusi.
Ortom said the group which refused to name itself, accused him of being responsible for the recent killing of some pastoralists at Akwanaja in Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa State via a bomb attack.
“My attention was drawn to a write-up signed by 52 personalities of Fulani extraction led by the deposed Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi in form of a letter to Mr President in which the group leveled all manner of accusations against me in a desperate attempt to set me up for hatred, vilification, and attacks,” he said.
Ortom said his detractors also “tried to link the Benue State Livestock Guards with the killings, claiming that the pastoralists were bombed on their way from Benue to Nasarawa states after they had retrieved their cattle”.
The group which refused to give itself a name accused me of being responsible for the recent killing of some pastoralists at Akwanaja, Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa State via a bomb attack. They tried to link the Benue State Livestock Guards with the killings, claiming that the pastoralists were bombed on their way from Benue to Nasarawa after they had retrieved their cattle.
“The group maliciously accused me of carrying out genocide against pastoralists. The dethroned Emir Sanusi did not stop at that”, Ortom said.