Governor Alia offered the explanation during a statewide broadcast to mark this year’s Democracy Day on Monday.
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He spoke at a thanksgiving service in his honour by the Post-Transition Committee at St. Winifred’s Parish, Ihugh.
Alia who was sworn in by the Chief Judge of Benue State, Hon. Justice Maurice Ikpambese, immediately froze all bank accounts belonging to the Benue State Government.
Daily Sun gathered that while four people were killed in Hirnyam village, one was killed in Governor Samuel Ortom’s hometown, Ortom village, while two others were killed in Semaka village, all of Guma LGA.
The slain soldier, it was gathered, was the commander of Operation Whirl Stroke in that area.
The party confirmed the development in a statement issued by its Publicity Secretary, Terse Orbunde, on Monday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that 50 persons were killed in Umogidi, Entekpa, Adoka, Otukpo LGA of the state.
Ortom made the call when he received a delegation from the Middle Belt Forum led by its President, Dr. Bitrus Pogu, at the Government House in Makurdi.
The police charged the defendant with assault and attempted culpable homicide in a suit brought to court on Thursday.
The State Governor, Samuel Ortom, revealed this after the expanded meeting of the State Security Council.
He spoke on Saturday at Mgbam community, Nyiev Ward, Guma Local Government Area, where 36 people were killed.
In a statement by his spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu, Buhari said all efforts must be made to end the “extreme violence”
Iyorchia, among the Tiv ethnic group, means someone people are afraid of. Ayu, on the other hand, means water mermaid.
The Acting State Chairman of the party, Isaac Mffo, made this known at a press conference on Thursday in Makurdi.
The Director of Communications, Alia/Ode Campaign Organisation, Tersoo Kula, said this in a statement on Saturday in Makurdi.
Isaac Mffo, the state acting PDP Chairman, said this when he addressed a news conference on Friday in Makurdi.
The results were announced by returning officers of the local government areas respectively with the supervision of the Collation Officer, Vice Chancellor, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Prof. Farouk Kuta.
The inalienable implication of this reality is that we, as a people cannot in truth distance ourselves from the choices we had willfully made for good or for bad, for progress or setback every time in the past 24 years that we have gone to the ballot box and imprinted our thumb to install the next habitués of our political and in fact, existential institutions; the legislative arms, from the Senate, the House of Representatives through to the State Assemblies; formulators and guardians of our constitution and the overarching supervisors of the executive arm of governance, from the President, to the State Governors and Local Government Chairpersons, all the way to the minutest Wards. For us to evaluate where we’re at and where we should be heading to, it would be good to look at our place in the world vis a vis our peculiar circumstances. Nigeria is one of 96 acknowledged democracies out of the 195 countries on the globe.
The police charged the couple with criminal conspiracy and advanced fee fraud, dragging them to court on Friday.
Chairman, Rescheduled Election Committee, Senator Basheer Lado, announced Alia as winner in Makurdi Thursday.