Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has said Nigerians should hold the APC-led Federal Government responsible if anything happens to him.
Ortom made the revelations in Abuja on Monday while speaking to journalists on state of the nation.
He accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of persecuting him since he defected from the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) to the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
BusinessDay reports that since his defection to PDP in July 2018, Ortom has been having running battles with the Federal Government.
“If I die today, the Federal Government should be held responsible because they are planning to eliminate me. I am not going to stop. I will continue to defend my people.
“I know that I am being persecuted because the cabal don’t like me. They do all kind of things. EFCC has been chasing me and my staff for the past 10 months. And I have not done anything wrong that they have been chasing me all over the place. Persecution is so much, threats on my life,” he told journalists in Abuja while fielding questions.
According to him, save for pensions, he has been able to clear salary arrears of workers since January 2018.
On the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen by President Muhammadu Buhari, he said he may not be aware of the developments.
“Is it the first time that Mr President is not aware of something. When we were attacked and he directed the IGP to relocate to Benue State and the man went to Nasarawa and when he came we confronted him, he said was not aware. And there are many other things of Mr President not being aware that you know.
“Even when the CJN was to be arraigned, was Mr President aware? We were told by the Vice President (Yemi Osinbajo) that Mr President was not aware. Did you not hear him? Or did you not read it on the pages of newspapers? So, maybe this one too, he is not aware. Because I have not met him one-on-one. I want to assume that he may not be aware. I am not holding brief for him. So, you journalists too can help us get him to be aware.
“That is the challenge we have. But you heard our mother in the nation Aisha Buhari came out crying that the husband is no longer ruling. That it is the cabal. And we men should talk. If I undress now, you will see that I am a man.
“So we must talk. That is the point I am making. I am doing it in support of our mother, the First Lady. It is clarion call that all of us should stand up and chase that cabal away because we did not elect any cabal in that Villa,” he noted.
