Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom has warned that bandits may take over Aso Villa, the nation’s seat of power, if the Federal Government does not take urgent steps to stop their criminal activities.

The outspoken governor said the country was gradually tilting towards Afghanistan where bandits overran its State House and took over the seat of power.

Ortom made the remarks while speaking on Politics Today, aired on Channels Television.

He regretted the increasing orgy of violence and number of killings in various parts of the country, urging the Federal Government to do more to stop the activities of the marauders.

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Ortom said the boldness with which the bandits are kidnapping people around Abuja and even in the Federal Capital Territory(FCT), it is not impossible for them to contemplate taking over power like what happened in Afghanistan.

The governor said Nigeria is at its lowest ebb in terms of all indices of development and enjoined the people to support the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) to take the nation from the bottom to the top as against the opposite where the ruling party, All Progressives Congress(APC ) has placed her.

On the internal crisis in the PDP since after its presidential primaries, he stressed the need for the standard bearer, Atiku Abubakar to reach out to all the major stakeholders aggrieved over the outcome of the exercise and nomination of the party’s presidential running mate.

He urged Atiku to placate aggrieved members of the party and noted that the opposition party would remain intact depending on how the leadership of the PDP handles the situation.