President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Prof. James Ornguga Ayatse, on his election as Tor Tiv, the paramount ruler of the Tiv people.
The President who spoke through his Special Adviser on Media & Publicity, Femi Adesina said he believed the professor’s emergence as the paramount ruler of the Tiv people, is an affirmation of his strength of character, integrity, and moral authority, garnered over the years as a lecturer, erudite scholar and administrator.
While calling on the Tiv nation to rally round the new monarch to make his reign as Tor Tiv the fifth, a resounding success, the President Buhari urged the paramount ruler to use his revered office as a veritable platform for conflict prevention, peace building and development in the grassroots.
Prof. Ayatse, a former Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, is also the pioneer and immediate past Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University, Dutsin-Ma, Katsina State.
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