Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has condoled with the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state over the murder of the party’s Chairman in Ohimini Local Government Area, Mr Boniface Okloho.
Governor Ortom in a press statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase condemned strongly the killing and urged security agencies to ensure that those responsible are apprehended for prosecution.
He described the act as barbaric, anti-democratic and capable of derailing the electoral process in the area.
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The Governor said violence in any form has no place in democracy and stressed that those who take the lives of others on account of politics were the real enemies of the State.
He sympathised with the Okloho family, the people of Ohimini as well as the leadership and members of APC in the State and prayed God to grant the soul of the deceased eternal rest.
