The outgoing Governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam, has disclosed that his administration will be leaving a dept profile of N9.2bn behind for the incoming administration of Samuel Ortom.
Suswam disclosed this at the Banquet Hall of the Government House Makurdi after presenting his handover notes to Ortom.
He said, “I am leaving behind a total debt profile of N9.2bn for the incoming administration.”
He said he regrets that he did not take the state to a greater heights after spending eight years as a governor.
“Surely, we did not take Benue State to a greater height but that doesn’t mean that we didn’t do our part as a government,” Suswam declared.
According to Suswam, he had remained a fulfilled man having provided the needed platform for the incoming administration to thrive, appealing to the media to extend the same gesture of goodwill to the incoming administration both in the state and at the federal levels.
As a measure of good faith, Suswam also announced that he had instructed his lawyers to withdraw a lawsuit he earlier instituted against Senator Barnabas Gemade at the election tribunal.
He pleaded with the people of the state to forgive him for some of the decisions he might have taken that were contrary to their wishes.
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