Benue state government Wednesday, expressed shock at the statement credited to a leading member of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, MACBAN, Garus Gololo who demanded that the the Senate President, Bukola Saraki resign his position or be forced out of office.

Ethnic leaders in Benue State, on the platform of Mdzough U Tiv, MUT; Idoma National Forum, INF, and Omi Ny’Igegde, ONI, have condemned what they described as the economic strangulation of Benue Government and its people by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

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.