District head appointment sparks tension in Benue, community petitions Gov Alia

Tension is mounting successful Ingle Edumoga Community of Ingle/Okpale Ward, Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue State, pursuing a quality implicit the assignment of the caller District Head of Edumoga.

Elders, youths and different stakeholders from the assemblage person petitioned Governor Hyacinth Iormem Alia, urging him to halt what they described arsenic an effort to undermine the accepted rotational statement governing succession to the stool.

In the petition, besides copied to accepted and governmental leaders successful the area, the assemblage accused its monarch, who besides chairs the Okpokwu Council of Chiefs, of allegedly orchestrating moves to bypass Ingle Edumoga and installing a campaigner from different ward that had already occupied the position.

The three-page petition was signed by the Chairman of Ingle Community, Mr Gabriel Ugboyi Ogwuchea; National Matron/Women Leader, Mrs Elizabeth Ochada; and National Youth Leader, ...