Alliance might damage Gov Alia’s re-election, Benue APC warns

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Benue state has rejected the purported formation of the “Strategic Alliance for Tinubu/Shettima Re-election 2027,” alleging that it’s designed to undermine Governor Hyacinth Alia’s re-election bid.

The marketing campaign council additionally mentioned the APC in Benue doesn’t want any political alliance to win the 2027 elections, and urged members concerned in such an association to withdraw and return to the celebration’s mainstream management below Alia.

The Director-General of the Tinubu/Alia 2027 Campaign Council within the state, Hon. Richard Asema, with different administrators of the marketing campaign council, rejected the overture on Friday in Makurdi on Friday.

Asema mentioned the alliance reportedly concerned the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume; the Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Prof. Joseph Utsev; the governorship candidates of opposition events, together with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP).

He described the event as “contemptuous and injurious to the APC’s electoral fortunes in the state,” alleging that its promoters had been utilizing help for President Bola Tinubu’s re-election as a canopy to sabotage Alia’s second-term ambition.

The marketing campaign council mentioned the APC had already constituted and inaugurated a 900-member marketing campaign construction on 5 November, including that some members of the purported alliance had been appointed however subsequently declined to take part in its actions.

Asema asserted that the APC remained firmly established in Benue, citing its management of 27 out of 32 State Assembly seats, 10 of the 11 House of Representatives seats, all 23 native authorities councils and 276 elected councillors.