The Tor Tiv and Chairman of the Benue State Council of Chiefs, His Royal Majesty Prof. James Ayatse, has raised alarm over the persistent attacks in Benue State, describing the violence not as farmer-herder clashes, but as a “well-planned genocidal invasion and land-grabbing campaign” by terrorists.

The Concerned Citizens of Ondo State Pro-Democracy Advocates Youths and Patriots of Nigeria, have  described the omission of the name of the late Governor of Ondo State, Chief Adebayo Adeferati, in the list of eminent Nigerians to be honoured post humorously by President Bola Tinubu, as painful.

Acting National Chairman of Labour Party, LP, Senator Esther Nenadi-Usman, has taken  a jibe at President Bola Tinubu over the fracas, which erupted during the All Progressives Congress, APC, stakeholders meeting held in Gombe State at the weekend.

“How do you go to his (Shettima) place (N-East) to undermine him and expect no outcry from his people?”

Public affairs analyst and advocate for accountable governance, Sir Ifeanyi Ejiofor, has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to invoke his constitutional authority to declare a state of emergency in Benue State, citing the scale and persistent nature of the killings of innocent civilians.