GOV ORTOM RAPS WIKE OVER CALLS FOR PROBE OF PARIS CLUB REFUNDS

Benue state Governor, Sam Ortom is leaving no stone unturned as has engaged his Rivers State counterpart, Nyeson Wike in a media war following the latter's call for probe of the accounts of the Paris Club refunds.

Ortom  in a reaction to a recent statement credited to Nyesome Wike, calling on EFCC to probe him on the Paris Club refund to Benue, described the call as not only laughable but, a poor diversionary tactics.

Gov. Sam Ortom noted that Governor Wike is apparently trying to use Benue state to divert attention from the gross failure of governance and stinking corruption being witnessed in Rivers State.

"Wike is not constructing roads in any part of Benue State and I therefore challenge him to publish evidence of the two roads he claims to be constructing in the state", Ortom stated.

”Benue people are witnesses to the fact that the government run by Rivers governors political party, PDP, abandoned 11 roads across Benue State.

Arguing that it was therefore ridiculous that Governor Nyesom Wike, a man who is clearly not interested in the development of Rivers state; a man who is believed to be sponsoring thugs and cultists to occupy public offices, the Benue state Governor says; a man who has never won a free and fair election; a man who publicly swears with a sword in his hand to slaughter opposition members; a man who has no known antecedents of positive thinking; a man notorious for looting of public funds; a man who, since assumption of office has been on a voyage of destruction of education, health and economic structures built by his predecessor has now become an advocate of development and probity in another state.