{"id":88759,"date":"2018-08-11T20:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T19:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/?p=88759"},"modified":"2018-08-11T20:00:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T19:00:10","slug":"no-amount-of-persecution-will-make-me-return-to-apc-ortom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/no-amount-of-persecution-will-make-me-return-to-apc-ortom\/","title":{"rendered":"No amount of persecution will make me return to APC &#8211; Ortom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue state has said that no amount of \u201ctorment or persecution\u201d will make him reconsider his defection from the ruling All Progressives (APC).<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on his behalf by Terver Akase, his chief press secretary, the governor accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of being a strike squad of the ruling party.<\/p>\n<p>He also alleged that the federal government had been using the anti-graft agency to \u201ccripple governance in the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter succumbing to nationwide condemnation of its illegal freezing of Benue State Government accounts, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has resorted to yet another shameful act in its desperation to cripple governance in the state,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe anti-graft agency\u2019s latest move is the bandying of figures in national dailies claiming that such figures are those of transactions in the accounts owned by the Benue State Government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt released figures allegedly withdrawn from the Benue State Government accounts without disclosing the dates of the withdrawals and the period during which they were made.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe commission has also not been able to state accounts into which such monies withdrawn were paid to prove that the funds had been diverted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEFCC is contented with publishing the figures without stating how impropriety has been established.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre government monies supposed to be kept in the accounts indefinitely without expenditure? Their objective is apparently to give Governor Samuel Ortom and his administration a bad name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn this score, it is clear that the EFCC has now become both a strike squad of the APC for torment, and their law court for the trial and conviction of political opponents.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue state has said that no amount of \u201ctorment or persecution\u201d will make him reconsider his defection from the ruling All Progressives (APC). In a statement issued on his behalf by Terver Akase, his chief press secretary, the governor accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of being a strike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":70208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2],"tags":[32,17,37878],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>No amount of persecution will make me return to APC - Ortom | New Mail Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/no-amount-of-persecution-will-make-me-return-to-apc-ortom\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No amount of persecution will make me return to APC - Ortom | New Mail Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gov. 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