BY PETER DURU

MAKURDI—The Benue state Commissioner for Environment and Urban Development, Dr. Eugene Aliegba, yesterday resigned his position from the State Executive Council, EXCO, to enable him contest the 2015 governorship election in the state.

His action is sequel to the directive by Governor Gabriel Suswam that commissioners and Permanent Secretaries and other political appointees or civil servants who were nursing governorship ambition should resign their positions on or before the end of the month or get sacked.

Aliegba later told journalists in Makurdi, the state capital that, ‘’I tendered my resignation from the EXCO (today) yesterday, and my departure takes effect from the end of this month.

“My decision to leave is in tandem with the directive of Governor Suswam last week; and because I am serious with my gubernatorial ambition and I want to go into it with all the seriousness it deserves.

“I believe that I have served this government for close to seven years now and within that period I have garnered a lot of experience to run for the position of governor.”

Aliegba stated that he informed Governor Suswam of his decision before tendering his resignation, to enable him pursue his ambition.