Justice Theresa Igoche of the Benue State High Court, Makurdi, on Wednesday, dismissed a suit filed by former Governor Samuel Ortom, seeking to stop the state government from retrieving the state’s assets from officials who served in the last administration.
Ortom and his deputy, Benson Abounu, had in the suit challenged the planned retrieval of vehicles and property donated to them and cabinet members by the Benue State Executive Council before their handover on May 29.
They described the move as a constitutional affront to their collective rights to ownership of property legally and legitimately vested in them by the then State Executive Council members.
