AK-47 comments: My feud with Gov Ortom regrettable - Bauchi governor

Bauchi state governor, Senator Bala Mohammed, on Tuesday, March 2 described the feud between him and his Benue counterpart, Governor Samuel Ortom over comments relating to the farmers/herders crisis as regrettable.

Governor Mohammed made the comment at Government House, Port Harcourt, Rivers state where host Governor Nyesom Wike and Adamawa state chief executive, Governor Ahmed Fintiri, reconciled the duo.

All four governors are members of the main opposition party in Nigeria, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Following a warm embrace between Ortom and Mohammed, after the truce brokered by Wike and Finitri, the Bauchi governor said the tension between him and his Benue counterpart was fuelled by widespread insecurity in the country.

Vanguard quoted him as saying: “We don’t mean to divide the country, to divide our people. We are still friends and brothers and we will move forward because most of those issues are fully resolved. Whatever misconception generated, that me and my brother, Ortom are having problem or with anybody in Nigeria is not true. “What happened was just an explanation that emanated from a larger Governors’ Forum that we spoke on the security of the nation and talked of the failure of security infrastructure which everybody knows is under the purview of the federal government.”

On his part, Governor Ortom said it was wrong for him and the Bauchi governor to verbally attack each other via the media.

He admitted that they both mistakes, adding that as human beings, they are not above mistakes.

He added: “We must come together, not to talk ethnicity or religion. We must come together as brothers and sisters who have no other country than Nigeria, to work together towards a common cause that will solve the problem we have.”