Benue 2027: Okpoga demands Reps seat, cites years of exclusion

Stakeholders successful Okpoga person formally demanded the accidental to nutrient the adjacent subordinate of the House of Representatives for Ado/Okpokwu/Ogbadibo Federal Constituency successful 2027, besides known arsenic Enone, citing decades of governmental exclusion.

This was contained successful a communiqué issued astatine the extremity of a Town Hall Meeting convened by the Okpoga Now Movement astatine Ugwu Okpoga.

In the communiqué, participants resolved unanimously that it is the crook of Okpoga to inhabit the national legislative seat, stressing that the request is anchored connected equity, fairness and justice.

The stakeholders noted that since the instrumentality to antiauthoritarian governance successful 1999, Okpoga, contempt being the administrative office of the constituency, has not produced a typical successful the Green Chambers, describing the concern arsenic a long-standing imbalance that indispensable beryllium corrected.

The communiqué further highlighted that the gathering had successful attendance cardinal governmental actors and aspirants crossed enactment lines, including Richard Ejoha, Anthony Agom, John-Mary Idoko, Ralph Otobo Odoh and Okoriko Abah, each of whom supported the telephone for an Okpoga campaigner to look successful 2027.

Stakeholders besides utilized the accidental to entreaty to different communities wrong Ado, Okpokwu and Ogbadibo Local Government Areas to enactment the aspiration successful the involvement of unity, inclusiveness and po...