The fight over who becomes the speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly has taken on different dimensions as supporters of George Akume and Fr. Hyacinth Alia have drawn daggers
Fr. Hyacinth Alia inaugurated the 10th assembly on Monday, paving the way for its 32 members to elect a speaker and deputy speaker. At a stakeholders meeting last night, stakeholders in the APC zoned the speaker to Gboko Local Government and produced Becky Orpin as the consensus candidate of the party. But Aondonna Hyacinth Dajo, the member representing Gboko West who is believed to be backed by Fr. Hyacinth Alia’s camp, is also in the contest. On the first ballot, the two candidates were tied at 16 votes each, with the clerk of the assembly noting that there would be another round of voting. The representative of Konshisha Constituency and only member of the Labour Party, Cephas Diako, called for the next round of elections to be held without the governor, the senator-elect for Benue North-West, and the party leadership. According to him, the presence of the three puts pressure on the members to vote for their preferred candidates. The house proceeded on a 10-minute break to reconvene for another round of voting for the position of speaker, allowing members to consult one another on who to vote for as speaker. However, when the second round of voting commenced, there was a shouting match among members over an alleged plot by some members to influence other members to vote for a particular candidate as speaker. For several minutes, pro-Akume and pro-Alia supporters backing their respective nominees for the position of speaker loudly called for the cancellation of the second round of voting over alleged influence on the voting process. Tags: 10th AssemblyAkumeAlia

https://citizentvnigeria.com/just-in-supporters-of-akume-alia-in-war-over-benue-speaker/ | Citizen Television Nigeria

Power

They shud stop adding this Fr. Title to the Governor,


Once you become a politician things that pertain to divinity should stop been used as prefixes.


The Catholic Church should call him to order

I am not a Benue indgene, not an APC member, but I love this Fr. Alia. I know how a woeful performer Ortom was.
However, Fr. Alia should really be careful of his APC gangs. Especially this Akume and all those criminal politicians. These people are deadly. These people are evil.

KingOfIsoko1:
They shud stop adding this Fr. Title to the Governor,


Once you become a politician things that pertain to divinity should stop been used as prefixes.


The Catholic Church should call him to order

That Fr is not a title and indilable mark that can not be erased

SpecialAdviser:
I am not a Benue indgene, not an APC member, but I love this Fr. Alia. I know how a woeful performer Ortom was.
However, Fr. Alia should really be careful of his APC gangs. Especially this Akume and all those criminal politicians. These people are deadly. These people are evil.

but PDP and LP are holy,angelic and biblical 😆

This people self!

There's no war anywhere

Everything was zoned even before the elections

Can't an idoma be speaker of benue state house of assembly

Kyase:
There's no war anywhere

Everything was zoned even before the elections

Dajo won

Kyase:
There's no war anywhere

Everything was zoned even before the elections

Everything was zoned and consensus picked. The pressure here was to ensure that the the consensus candidate, Mrs Becky Orpin win. A counter strategy from the Governor's camp led to the failure of the consensus candidate to clinch the plum position.