BEVERLY HILLS, March 02, (THEWILL) – Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom and his Bauchi counterpart, Bala Mohammed, on Tuesday embraced after a truce brokered by Rivers’ Governor Nyesom Wike.
Both Ortom and Mohammed had clashed publicly over herdsmen killings across the nation, with the Bauchi Governor backing Fulani going about with guns and the Benue Governor calling him out as a supporter of terrorists.
Mohammed defended the herdsmen bearing AK-47 rifles, saying they did it out of self-protection.
But Ortom disagreed with the Bauchi Governor for allegedly supporting criminality and labelling him a “terrorist governor.”
Their People’s Democratic Party had waded into the altercation between the two governors as they both belonged to the PDP.
On Tuesday, Wike, and his Adamawa State counterpart, Ahmadu Fintiri, met with the two governors in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, and successfully brokered a reconciliation efforts.
A truce seemed to be reached after the meeting at Wike’s private residence in Port Harcourt with Ortom and Mohammed embracing each other.
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