Ortom expresses shock at Rep Deputy Speaker’s rejection of diaspora petition On By Peter Duru – Makurdi Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has described as shocking the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representative’s rejection of a petition from the Mutual Union of Tiv in America, MUTA, brought before the House by the member representing Gwer East/Gwer West Federal Constituency, Mr. Mark Gbillah. He said the action amounted to the suppression of the people’s voice; a development he said contravened the very principles upon which the country’s democracy was built. The Governor in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase, noted that “Nigerians home and abroad have a right as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution as amended to express their feelings about affairs in their country.”