Benue remembers 2018 ‘crazy’ killings as Ortom, Ayu, Moro launch PDP campaigns-vanguard

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Makurdi, Benue State capital, stood still last Monday when Governor Samuel Ortom and his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, flagged off the campaigns ahead of the 2019 polls......

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