Latest Benue News today, Sunday, November 27, 2022

Latest Benue News today, Sunday, November 27, 2022

1. The Police Command in Benue State on Thursday arraigned two men, Bem Ikpajev and Msughaondo Ernyi, in a Makurdi area court for criminal conspiracy and armed robbery.

The prosecutor, Inspector Veronica Shaagee, told the court that the case was reported in a petition by S.T. Hon (SAN) and Co on behalf of the Adiekwu Kombol family of Mbanor, Ityuluv, Torov, Ukum LGA to the Commissioner of Police (CP), Benue State Command.

2. The presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has been campaigning for his main opponents more than himself since the campaigns began. The Special Adviser to the Benue State Governor on Media and Publicity, Mr Terver Akase, said that instead of focusing on selling his programmes and policies to the electorate, Tinubu never missed any opportunity to say a word or two about Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP).

3. Rev. Fr Hyacinth Alia, the Benue governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) says it is almost certain that the party will takeover the state in 2023 general election.

Alia stated this on Friday when he spoke with newsmen in Makurdi, shortly after the Federal High Court sitting in Makurdi, declared him as the authentic APC governorship candidate for 2023 poll.

4. Suspected arsonists have set ablaze the residence of a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in Benue State, Hon. Shagbaor Akaa Lim, in Gboko East of Gboko Local Government Area of the state.
The incident happened on Thursday, November 24, barely 24 hours after Lim received a car gift from Governor, Samuel Ortom.
5. The governorship candidate of the African Action Congress in Benue State, Benjamin Obe, has knocked Governor Samuel Ortom of the state, accusing him of abandoning his duties to be “dancing around” with Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State.
Obe alleged that amid the poverty and insecurity rocking Benue, Ortom chose to be going around with other aggrieved governors of the Peoples Democratic Party, known as G5 governors, and seeking the resignation of the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar over regional differences.