Comrade Daniel Onjeh, the 2023 All Progressives Congress, APC, Benue South senatorial candidate, has dismissed Senator Patrick Abba Moro’s claim that Governor Hyacinth Iormem Alia hates the Idoma folks.
Onjeh described Moro’s assertion as “unwell-knowledgeable, malicious, and a chunk of deliberate misinformation aimed toward deceptive the unsuspecting public and inciting pointless ethnic sentiment.”
Onjeh, a former chairman of the Undertaking Growth Institute (PRODA), mentioned the info on the bottom contradict Moro’s allegation.
“Governor Alia has proven larger inclusion, dedication, and real affection in direction of the folks of Benue South inside two years than the PDP-led administrations did within the sixteen years previous him,” he said.
He highlighted that strategic ministries resembling Finance, Schooling, Water Sources, Info, Ladies Affairs, and the workplace of the Head of Service are at the moment led by competent little children of Benue South.
“No chief who hates a folks would entrust them with such delicate pillars of state administration,” Onjeh added.
Onjeh famous ongoing interventions in Benue South, together with the rehabilitation of Oju Achoho Highway, Igumale Agila Highway, Otobi water works, and main street initiatives resembling Oju Awajir (52 km), Obagaji Okokolo Agagbe (43.5 km), and Igumale Agila (31.2 km).
He mentioned:“ The Aliade Mbakine Obarike Ito street undertaking, measuring about 36 km and opening up a hall with big agricultural potential, can be in view and kinds a part of the Governor’s broader growth blueprint for Benue South.”
He additionally pressured that Governor Alia’s insurance policies immediately profit the poorest within the zone.
“The cost of unpaid salaries, gratuities, and pensions has had a direct and optimistic impact on strange households,” Onjeh mentioned, explaining that these funds injected disposable revenue into the financial system and strengthened small companies.
Onjeh additional recalled a private cellphone dialog with the Governor whereas he was overseas, throughout which they mentioned points affecting Benue South for practically three hours.
“Greater than ninety per cent of the dialog was devoted completely to Benue South,” he mentioned, highlighting the Governor’s fixed engagement with the Deputy Governor on the zone’s affairs.
