Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, yesterday condemned utterances by the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG), which issued a 30-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to implement the Ruga policy across the country.
The governor urged security agencies to arrest leaders of the group for the inflammatory statement capable of causing anarchy in the country. He said the act of the coalition poses a real threat to the country’s unity and deserves to be tackled urgently. Ortom stressed that the coalition is not an alterna tive government, therefore, has no right to issue such a warning. He maintained that if the government introduces a programme but later decides to suspend it in the larger interest of Nigeria, groups under whichever appellation have no constitutional powers to coerce it to rescind the decision.
he governor commended President Muhammadu Buhari for suspending the Ruga settlements plan, a move he said is in the right direction. He emphasised that the arrest of officials of the Coalition of Northern Groups will serve as deterrent to others nursing similar divisive tendencies.
