The Benue State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has called on the immediate past governor, Gabriel Suswam to return all the money he allegedly stole while presiding over the affairs of the state between 2007 and 2015.

The party was reacting to the recent claim by the embattled erstwhile governor that his successor, Samuel Ortom has ruined the state just after one year in office.

A statement issued by Berger Alfred, the Acting Publicity Secretary of the party in the state asked the former governor to return all the money he stole while in office if he loved Benue as he claimed.

The party warned Suswam to stop castigating the name of the current governor to score cheap political gain.

The statement  obtained on Tuesday  by CEOAFRICA news reads in full:

“The attention of the governing All Progressives Congress, APC, Benue State has been drawn to two careless, malicious and inciting statements made by the former governor of the State Dr. Gabriel Suswam during the last PDP caucus meeting held yesterday at the party’s secretariat in Makurdi wherein he alleged that ‘the APC- led government in the state has plunged the state into its biggest crisis in decades as workers are routinely owed salary while hate and intolerance have been elevated to the statecraft’.

“The second but more dangerous being his allegation that ‘the government of the day is unlawfully arresting PDP youths and keeping them in cell’.