The absence of the former governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam at the
inauguration of his successor, Dr Samuel Ortom yesterday, did not stop
youths in the state from erring their minds.
Prior to the inauguration, it was rumoured that civil servants in the
state were planning to disgrace the former governor at the inauguration
ceremony for failing to clear their outstanding wages but it was the
youths who made good any threats of humiliation.
Some youths were seen at the inauguration ceremony held at the popular
IBB Square, Makurdi, with a black cat caged in a wired case (PICTURED
ABOVE) symbolised the defeat and incapacitation of Suswam.
The former governor was alleged to have, before the general elections,
claimed to be a “black cat” which always invincible in the night,
synonymous of his victory in previous elections against stark odds.
The custodians of the caged black cat were cheered as they danced
through the mammoth crowd who came from every nook and cranny of the
state to witness the occasion.
Apart from Suswam’s chief of staff, Prof Saint Gbilekaa, key figures of
the outgoing government and notable elders of the opposition PDP were
also conspicuously absent to the epoch-making event.
