Benue youths protest with coffin, reject APC primaries over killings in Idoma community

Angry youths successful Benue South connected Saturday staged a protestation during the ongoing All Progressives Congress, APC, superior elections, demanding an extremity to the persistent killings successful parts of the Idoma-speaking area.

The protesters barricaded a large road successful Apa Local Government Area, disrupting question and governmental activities successful the area.

Carrying a coffin and placards with assorted inscriptions, the youths chanted “No election” and insisted that nary governmental workout should instrumentality spot portion insecurity continues to assertion lives successful the community.

According to the demonstrators, the worsening information concern successful Apa Local Government Area has near residents surviving successful fear, with galore communities repeatedly attacked by suspected equipped herdsmen and transgression elements.

The protesters maintained that governmental leaders indispensable prioritise the extortion of lives and spot earlier embarking connected enactment primaries and different governmental activities.

“The youths of Apa are saying nary to immoderate superior predetermination until the insecurity concern successful our onshore is addressed,” 1 of the protesters said.

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