Human rights activist, Dele Farotimi, has said that would have been better if President Bola Tinubu did not visit Benue State, claiming that the president was unfeeling towards the suffering of people of the state.
Farotimi pointed out that the only individual who said anything meaningful during Tinubu’s visit to Benue was the Tor Tiv V, James Ayatse.
He said Ayatse described the attacks as a “calculated, well-planned, full-scale genocidal invasion and land grabbing campaign by herder terrorists and bandits.”
Speaking while fielding questions on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief, the human rights activist said, “I must say very quickly that it would have been better if the president didn’t go.
“The only thing worthy of anybody’s time was the words of the Tor Tiv, who spoke extensively to the reality of the situation in the Benue Trough and spoke eloquently to the pains of the victims.
“Other than that, all the president had to offer were mere windows into his preoccupation and what truly concerns his aides and assistants,” Farotimi stated.
