Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has raised an alarm over an alleged plan by bandits to abduct and kill him.
The governor raised the concern on Friday during an interactive session with traditional rulers and other stakeholders at an event in Makurdi, the state capital.
Ortom said he received an information that there were plans to attack his convoy on his way to Abuja and kill his security personnel, after which he would be kidnapped and tortured him to death.
According to him, the plan to kill him is because he dared to speak out over the invasion of communities and the series of killings in the state.
The governor added that disclosed that as a result of the information, he had to take chartered flights to Abuja in some cases.
He decried that the flights were reportedly stopped from landing at the Makurdi Airport.
Governor Ortom blamed the insecurity in Benue on the inability of the government to arrest and prosecute those behind the…
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