Benue South group demands zoning of governorship, Senate seats

A unit radical nether the aegis of the Benue South Strategic Group (BSSG) has demanded the zoning of governorship and senatorial positions, citing decades of governmental exclusion of immoderate taste groups successful the state.

The radical made its presumption known connected Friday aft a stakeholders’ gathering successful Makurdi.

Addressing journalists aft the meeting, the person of the group, erstwhile Benue State Deputy Governor Chief Benson Abounu decried the agelong past of marginalisation of immoderate taste groups from holding definite governmental offices successful the state.

He noted that since the instauration of the state, Benue South has neither produced a politician nor occupied the bureau of Speaker of the State House of Assembly.

Chief Abounu described the concern arsenic unjust and unacceptable, insisting that the clip had travel for equity, fairness, and a deliberate governmental correction.

He declared that immoderate statesmanlike campaigner seeking their enactment up of the 2027 wide elections indispensable show a wide committedness to addressing the imbalance and guaranteeing just practice for the district.

The radical expressed steadfast resoluteness to nutrient a politician from Benue South successful the adjacent election, portion acknowledging the request to physique alliances crossed the authorities to actualise the ambition.

“We are determined, bu...