Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has called for religious freedom for all Nigerians.
Governor Ortom stated this in London when he addressed Nigerians in Diaspora and friends of Nigeria at the Freedom of Religion and Belief International Ministerial Fringe Events
In a statement issued and made available to journalists in Makurdi by his Senior Special Assistant on Diaspora Affairs, Peter Ichull, the governor maintained that freedom is humanity’s most valuable commodity, and equally it’s most contested.
ORTOM however submitted that Nigeria, as a country is presently under siege due to the activities of terrorists with its attendant bombing of churches and killing of clergy and worshippers, adding that all these were to send fear into the living to restrict their religious freedom