Benue Alliance to marketing campaign council: Stop political blackmail, enable us to work for Tinubu ‘s re-election

The Benue Strategic Alliance for Tinubu/Shettima 2027 on Saturday referred to as on the Director-General of the Tinubu/Alia 2027 Campaign Council, Hon. Citizen Richard Asema, to cease what it described as “political blackmail” and permit it to mobilise help for President Bola Tinubu’s re-election.

The Director-General of the Alliance, Chief Akange Audu, made the decision in a press release issued on Saturday, in response to allegations by Asema that the group was plotting to sabotage Tinubu’s 2027 re-election bid.

Audu described the allegations as unlucky, deceptive and politically counterproductive, insisting that the Alliance was neither a political occasion nor a faction searching for to take over the APC however a mobilisation platform for Tinubu’s re-election.

He defined that the group supplied a political platform for estranged APC members and stakeholders from different events who shared a typical dedication to the President’s second-term ambition however won’t help Governor Hyacinth Alia’s political pursuits.

According to him, supporting Tinubu’s re-election shouldn’t be made conditional on supporting Alia, as each are totally different political decisions that ought to be revered.

Audu claimed that the Alliance had the backing of elected APC government members at state, native authorities and ward ranges, in addition to the three senators representing Benue, 10 members of the House of Representatives and several other members of the State House of Assembly.

He additional disclosed that the group had established a Tinubu/Shettima 2027 Joint Campaign Council, comprising greater than 1,000 members drawn from estranged APC members, different political events and help teams.

It maintained that Tinubu wanted wider help and mobilisation in Benue state, warning that political disagreements over the governorship election shouldn’t undermine the collective goal of securing his re-election in 2027.

Audu added that the Alliance was not searching for APC positions or trying to take over the occasion’s constructions, insisting that each marketing campaign teams ought to be allowed to reveal their political energy by means of democratic engagement and the poll field.