The Vice Chancellor of University of Mkar, Zachary Gundu has dismissed the threat by Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule, saying he stands by his utterances that the neighbouring state was harbouring gunmen killing Benue citizens.

In a statement by his lawyer, Sebastian Hon, SAN, Gundu said he would neither apologise nor retract his claim as demanded by Governor Sule, urging him to approach the court instead.

Governor Sule, through his legal counsel, Ahmed Raji, SAN, had in a letter dated July 22, 2025, demanded a retraction and apology from Gundu over his comments at the News Central Town Hall meeting, saying the comments caused him damage and injured his reputation in the eyes and minds of the right-thinking persons in the society.

At the town hall meeting organised by News Central Television, Gundu alleged that Nasarawa State “has become a safe haven for so-called unknown gunmen terrorising the people of Benue state.”

In the letter by his counsel, Hon wrote: “We have the instructions of our client to dismiss the demands made in your letter of July 22, 2025. Our client cannot, under any guise, comply with those demands. We do hope you will advise your client accordingly.

“The volume of evidence at the disposal of Prof Gundu to establish beyond all shadows of doubt that the murderous Fulani herdsmen attacking Benue State on several fronts are always housed in Nasarawa State by successive State Governors of Nassarawa State, including Governor Sule, will shock the governor,” he stated.

Gundu vowed that he shall release all of the pieces of evidence when they meet in court, stressing that between 2020 and 2025, Governor Sule has been consistently raising alarm over the “influx” of murderous bandits into Nasarawa State.

Hon further said; “Just as our Client stated at that public outing, your Client’s predecessor, Tanko Al-Makura, once claimed that the bandits operating in and from Nasarawa State were “hunters,” when there are no hunting forests or ranges in Nasarawa State.”