A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Garus Gololo, has urged President Bola Tinubu to prevail on the Secretary to Authorities of the Federation, George Akume, to name his political loyalists to order over Benue State politics.
Gololo stated this at a press convention in Kaduna on Sunday.
He requested Nigeria President to wade into the disaster bedeviling Benue earlier than it acquired out of hand, accusing Akume of instigating the disaster for his personal egocentric curiosity.
He referred to as on the SGF to permit Governor Hyacinth Alia to focus on delivering dividends of democracy to the folks of the state.
Reminding the SGF that he himself did eight years as governor, Gololo charged him to permit the governor to do eight years too, as an alternative of lording himself as Alia’s godfather.
He stated, “The aim of calling this press convention is that as a celebration chieftain whenever you see one thing fallacious, you’re taking precautionary measures earlier than it occurs.
“The entire disaster began when Akume’s youthful spouse needed to develop into the Speaker of the Benue Home of Meeting, and the governor stated no!”
The Nationwide Meeting caucus from Benue State, underneath the platform of APC, had penultimate week accused Alia of operating the state authorities like a parish.
The NASS caucus believed to be Akume’s loyalists additionally accused Governor Alia of marginalizing APC members and appearing “dictatorially” in operating the affairs of the state.
The chief of the caucus and Senator representing Benue North-West, Senator Titus Zam, had at a press convention acknowledged that the governor’s tendencies may make the get together to lose subsequent elections within the state.
In keeping with Zam, the matter had been reported severally to Akume, who has been mediating to see that issues had been normalised.