Alia never sought relocation of Tor Tiv Palace, claims baseless — Benue govt

The Benue State Government has dismissed allegations by erstwhile Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Hyacinth Aondona Dajoh, that Governor Hyacinth Alia sought the relocation of the Tor Tiv Palace from Gboko to Ihugh, describing the claims arsenic mendacious and imaginary.

Reacting to remarks made by the erstwhile Speaker during activities marking his 50th day solemnisation successful Gboko Local Government Area, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Tersoo Kula, said Dajoh’s allegations lacked credibility and were unsupported by evidence.

Kula described the claims arsenic “a cocktail of conspiracy theories, unfounded accusations, outright falsehoods and reckless claims,” insisting that Governor Alia ne'er issued immoderate directive oregon connection requesting the relocation of the revered Tor Tiv Palace.

According to him, the erstwhile Speaker should marque nationalist the alleged correspondence if specified a papers genuinely exists.

“The assertion that Governor Hyacinth Alia wrote to him arsenic Speaker asking him to relocate the Palace of the Tor Tiv from Gboko to Ihugh is wholly false, baseless and imaginary,” Kula said.

He argued that immoderate authoritative connection from the Executive limb to the Benue State House of Assembly would person passed done established legislative procedures and records, making it intolerable for specified a directive to stay hidden.

Kula further noted that the House of Assembl...