The political battle for the soul of Benue between the Senator George Akume led All Progressives Congress, APC, and Governor Samuel Ortom of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has taken a dramatic turn as the kinsmen of the embattled Senator of Jemgbagh extraction comprising Gboko, Buruku and Tarka today pledged their unalloyed support for the Governor ahead of the 2019 elections.

Not everybody comes into politics to serve the people, many come for selfish interest and that is what is playing out now. Most of them are complaining because what they expected did not come and, to me, service to the people should be our primary aim.

Mr Emmanuel Chile, the General Manager of Benue State Environmental Sanitation Authority (BENSESA), said the agency inaugurated ‘operation show your dustbin’ to curb the indiscriminate dumping of refuse in Makurdi.

Benue state government has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, of turning itself to the strike squad and law court of the All Progressives Congress, APC, led federal government following the commission’s alleged untoward actions against perceived opponents of the government.

Not less than nine persons were reportedly killed by gunmen on Friday morning in Benue state.

THE Paramount Ruler of Idoma Kingdom, Chief Elias Obekpa, has urged Benue State government to partner the traditional institution to improve its internally-generated revenue, IGR.

The eight assemblymen were purportedly aggrieved over an alleged misappropriation of N54 billion by the Ortom government. According to them, of this amount, N22 billion was embezzled as security vote, while N32 billion was taken from funds belonging to the local governments while months of workers’ salaries remain unpaid. They served a seven-day impeachment notice on the Governor.

The Justice Theresa Igoche-led High Court sitting in Makurdi has, Wednesday, summoned the impeached Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, Mr Terkimbi Ikyange to appear before it within seven days.

The move by eight of the 30 members of the Benue State House of Assembly to impeach Governor Samuel Ortom may have been an act of desperation by the political class to control a state that has been a factor in all presidential elections since 1979.

The Benue State House of Assembly has suspended the eight lawmakers behind the alleged ‘impeachment notice’ served on the Governor of the state, Samuel Ortom on Monday.

A detachment of heavily armed policemen have currently shutdown the Benue State House of Assembly.

The APC might run into troubled waters in Benue given the verifiable facts which indicated that the tide is indubitably moving against its fortunes

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirants in Benue have kicked against the return of the state governor, Mr. Samuel Ortom, to the party.

The Special Adviser to Governor Samuel Ortom on Media and ICT, Tahav Agerzua has stated that Peoples Democratic Party, PDP governorship aspirants in the coming 2019 election lacked the powers to stop Governor Samuel Ortom or anybody to seek membership of the party if he so desired.

Thirteen governorship aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections in Benue State have kicked against the imminent return of Governor Samuel Ortom to the party.