Excuses, blame game won’t save you, Moro slams Gov Ortom

The immediate past Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro, has declared that despite efforts by the Samuel Ortom-led All Progressives Congress (APC) government in Benue State to silence him, he would continue to remain a potent voice in the state to entrench good governance.
Moro, a staunch member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), made the declaration in a statement he personally signed and issued on Thursday in Abuja, in reaction to the article of Governor Ortom’s media aide, Tahav Agerzua, captioned: “Innocent blood haunts Abba Moro daily”.
The said piece was written as a response to Moro’s critical remarks on the industrial action by the organised labour in Benue State.
Benue workers under the auspices of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) had penultimate week, embarked on a strike action to demand the payment of the backlog of salaries owed them by the state government.
Moro who has been a frontline critic of the current Benue State government had asked Ortom to stop lamenting and pay the workers their entitlements. He had also insisted that the governor has not done any meaningful project, in spite of the huge amount of money that has accrued to the state since Ortom assumed office in 2015.
“My attention has been drawn to the vituperation, tirades and diatribes from the government of Benue State that trailed my innocuous query of the handling of governance in Makurdi that is hurting the Benue people against the backdrop of the strike called by the Benue State chapter of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and its affiliate unions over their unpaid salaries and allowances and pension arrears.
“This is not surprising because it has become the trade mark of the Benue State government and its officials to avoid answering pertinent questions on misgovernment in Markudi to go after perceived opponents of government. It is unfortunate that people like Tahav Agerzua around Governor Ortom continue to mislead him into believing that things are well even when people wallow in misery as a result of the negatives of government’s poor policy thrusts.
“Rather than address germane questions being asked, the Agerzuas will quickly point to ‘frustration’, ‘mischief’ and ‘partisanship’ as the reasons for the concern being expressed over the deteriorating state of governance in Markudi.
“Governor Ortom and the APC campaigned on the change mantra. The governor and the APC hoodwinked the Benue people into believing that they possessed answers to the many problems that Benue State faced. They got elected in 2015. Two years on, can Benue State be said to be any better off than it was when Samuel Ortom took over in 2015?” Moro asked.