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Benue State Governor, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia, has broken his silence regarding the ongoing political crisis within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, attributing the friction to his firm refusal to misappropriate or share state funds with certain party chieftains.
Speaking in Yola on Saturday during the Adamawa State Tiv Day celebration, the governor maintained that the internal party turmoil is entirely driven by vested interests seeking to treat public resources as personal property.
‘The APC crisis you people are seeing in Benue State is not because I’m not working for the people of the state, some chieftains of the party want to convert the state into their private estate and I said it will not happen under my leadership,’ Alia stated.
‘There was Benue State before those individuals and there will be Benue State after those individuals, I was voted by Benue people, nobody has more than one vote, so the people of the state will decide my fate and not few individuals who believe in their families interest and not the state interest,’ he added.
Governor Alia, who was represented at the event by the Executive Secretary of the Benue State Emergency Management Agency, James Iorpuu, called on Tiv residents living in Adamawa State to remain exemplary ambassadors of their home state, emphasizing the vital role of peace and unity in national development.
He noted that no single ethnic group can build Nigeria in isolation, stressing that collective cooperation across all groups is essential to securing a stable nation for future generations.
Demonstrating his commitment to community cohesion, the governor donated ₦5 million toward the construction of a Tiv unity house in Adamawa State, reiterating that unity remains the cornerstone of sustainable progress.
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