NORTHERN POLITICAL LEADERS PLEDGE TO WORK WITH OTHER REGIONS

From ROSE EJEMBI, Makurdi.

The Northern Governors Forum has restated its commitment to ensuring a deepened relationship between the people of different sections of the region.

Chairman of the Forum, and Bornor State Governor, Kashim Shettima made the pledge when he led two other governors Alhaji Mohammed Badaru Abubakar of Jigawa State and Samuel Ortom of Benue as well as several senators to ay a condolence visit on Senator George Akume who buried his brother and paramount ruler of Tarka, the late Chief Gabriel Indyer Akume yesterday.

Shettima who noted that the people of the area had a lot in common particularly poverty which runs throughout the religion stressed that they needed to come together to overcome it and pledged that political leaders from the area would work to sustain it at all costs.

He posited that the visit of the Governors with several Senators from their states had rekindled ties which political leaders from the region had with one another, particularly that of the late Senator J S Tarka who provided a platform for the late Alhaji Kashim Ibrahim from Borno State to contest and win election in the former Tiv Native Authority.

Responding, Senator Akume said the visit brought comfort to him on account of the assurance that he had friends who could stand by him in his hour of need.

Earlier, Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, who received his colleagues at the Benue Peoples House led them to Senator Akume’s house at the Judges Quarters in the state capital.