Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has explained how he was attacked by armed men in Makurdi, Benue State capital on Saturday.
Briefing journalists after the incident, the governor said the gunmen were about 15. He said his security operatives prevented them from killing him.
Ortom said he was inspecting a farm at a river bank on Tyo Mu along Makurdi/Gboko road when the gunmen descended on him and his entourage.
But he said his security details responded quickly to the attack and were able to repel the assailants, thus giving him cover to return to safely return to his vehicle.
He however explained that troops of Operation Whirl Stroke, the police and DSS have mobilised to the forest between Tyo-Mu and Abinse where the armed herdsmen were camped to flush them out.
Ortom also called for the arrest and prosecution of the leadership of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore.
The group had at a meeting in Yola reportedly called for Ortom’s assassination.