By Peter Duru
The scheduled Tuesday ward congresses of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Benue State failed to hold in most parts of the state due mainly to lack of materials, crowd violence and alleged imposition of candidates without recourse to laid down procedures and congress guidelines.

In all the three senatorial districts of the state different factions of the party struggled with one another to hijack the list of party members in order to undo the other.

Vanguard gathered that at Binev in Buruku Local Government Area of the state, the Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, Mr. Terseer Tsumba, was chased by angry youths in his council ward who threatened to manhandle him for attempting to impose an unpopular candidate on party members.

Same is the story in Katsina-Ala Local Government township where the council chairman, Mr. Augustine Avaan, was viciously attacked and beaten up by irate youths who accused him of conniving with party officials to divert materials meant for the congresses in the area.

Feelers from the other 21 local government areas of the state painted the same picture of despair and disappointment by members of the party who lamented the complete disregard for the congress guidelines and hijack of materials by contending camps in the state.