PDP knocks Benue Governor, Fr Alia over insecurity, insists he is incompetent

Governor Hyacinth Alia has been criticized by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Benue State over the state’s worsening security situation.

According to the PDP, criminals are taking advantage of the governor’s ineptitude to commit their acts of malice.

Mr. Bemgba Iortyom, the party’s publicity secretary, announced this to reporters on Monday in Makurdi.

Iortyom said in the statement, “PDP notes with much sadness that, as a result, no day passes in Benue currently without one act of terror or another against the people by either Fulani herdsmen or bandits, resulting in deaths, destruction, hunger, and deepening impoverishment of ordinary citizens.

Bandits are said to have maintained a spell of dread in areas of the Sankera axis all night long, while reports indicate that Fulani herdsmen stopped the Makurdi – Naka Road last night, forcing motorists to avoid it.

Governor Alia has been in office for nearly four months, but he has not yet named a security adviser. This is indicative of incompetence and a lack of professionalism in his administration’s approach to security matters.

Remember how the governor proudly called bandits in the state “my brothers in the bush” and admitted to knowing and making an agreement with them?

He said, “Equally, a number of umbrella groups of Fulani herdsmen on several occasions claimed having rendered support to his election efforts, in return for his pledge to relax anti-open grazing restrictions against them in the state.”

“PDP charges Governor Alia to come out of his lethargy and move decisively against them,” the party wrote on its website. “The lives of Benue people must take precedence over whatever such pacts he must have had with any group of terrorists.”

Governor’s “blanket of silence” and “lethargy and inaction” are directly encouraging terrorists and spell disaster for the state and its people, so they must be broken.