….As Alia warns plotters of election disruption to have a rethink
By Titus Atondu, Makurdi
Barely three days to the governorship and state assembly elections across the country, the former governorship aspirant under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Professor Terhemba Shija has collapsed his campaign structure into the Alia/Ode Campaign Organization ahead of Saturday, March 18, 2023 Governorship and House of Assembly elections.
Contained in a press statement signed by Isaac Uzaan, Media Aide to Fr. Alia and made available to Nigerian NewsDirect on Tuesday revealed that the event took place in Makurdi and the Director General of Prof. Terhemba Shija’s Campaign Organization, Dr. James Mbachiantim spoke on behalf his Principal said they were passionately vying for the Governorship position with a clear and singular intention of developing Benue State, but now they have come to the final conclusion and all have agreed that Rev Fr Dr Hyacinth Iormem Alia should fly the flag of APC in Benue State.
He called on all supporters of Professor Terhemba Shija and other advocates of the ‘Benue Rebuild Agenda’ to throw their weight behind Rev. Fr. Dr. Hyacinth Iormem Alia and vote for him and other APC candidates at the forthcoming Governorship and Houses of Assembly elections.
Responding, Rev Fr Dr Hyacinth Iormem Alia appreciated Professor Terhemba Shija, described him as an elder brother who has seen it appropriate without mixing words to collapse his campaign into Alia/Ode Campaign so that they will execute one common agenda to bring development and growth to Benue State.
He extended appreciation and gratitude to all the sectional directors, whom he described were the architects of the Prof. Shija’s Benue Rebuild Agenda and thanked them for being gracious to accepting that they all share one common purpose to lift Benue from the dungeon where it is today and equally grant liberty to her people.
He explained that Prof. Shija and him are one with a common purpose of unity, a common purpose of development, and a common purpose of growth and stressed that many things have bond them together and nothing can separate them.
He appreciated Prof. Shija’s kindness and gratuitousness for accepting that they all unite to reclaim their state, liberate their people and ensure that Benue remains great again with the restoration of its abundant lost glory.
Fr. Alia used the occasion and warned those planning to disrupt the Saturday elections to have a rethink and allow Benue people to go out and elect leaders of their choice through voting process with out rancor or countrary face the consequences of their actions.