Benue govt rejects Ortom’s debate challenge, defends ongoing probe

The Benue State Government has dismissed erstwhile Governor Samuel Ortom’s telephone for a nationalist statement with Governor Hyacinth Alia, describing the situation arsenic an effort to divert attraction from ongoing investigations into his administration.

In a connection issued on Tuesday by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Tersoo Kula, the authorities said Alia remains focused connected governance and work transportation alternatively than engaging successful what it termed “media trials” and governmental distractions.

The connection maintained that the existent administration’s reappraisal of Ortom’s handover notes uncovered important fiscal discrepancies and administrative lapses, prompting the engagement of applicable authorities to analyse the issues.

According to the government, it was ironic that Ortom, who established a Commission of Inquiry to analyse the medication of his predecessor, Gabriel Suswam, present opposes akin scrutiny of his ain tenure.

The authorities besides rejected claims that the probe process was unfair, insisting that Ortom, his erstwhile appointees, and media aides were invited connected aggregate occasions and fixed opportunities to contiguous their cases earlier the commission.

Highlighting the challenges inherited by the Alia administration, the authorities said it took implicit a authorities grappling with 7 months of u...