August 11, (THEWILL) – Benue state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has expressed disgust over the current attacks by the APC in Benue State against the Ethanol Plant established by a Chinese Investors in Makurdi and the recently commissioned Benue Community Volunteer Guards.
The PDP said such attack is a manifestation of what it described as the ‘scorched earth strategy policy’ of deliberately targeting to harm the interests of Benue State and such should be brought to the attention of the people.
At a news conference in Makurdi on Thursday, the State Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr Bemgba Iortyom, therefore, called on people of Benue State to be aware of such destructive tendencies by the APC, as the party seeks to win power even if it will mean destroying Benue.
“We call on APC in the state to appreciate the fact that, we need Benue to be there for us as an entity before we may play politics under her canopy as our motherland.
“Targeting to destroy everything in Benue, in the view that doing so, weakens Governor Ortom and the PDP, going into elections is not only unpatriotic, but qualifies APC as enemy of the people of Benue State who need to have a state which should grow in development and be secured for them and their children yet unborn.”
According to Mr Bemgba, the APC has mobilised attacks within and outside Benue state against the recently established Ethanol Production Industry in Makurdi and the Benue Community Volunteer Guards (BCVGs) which Governor Ortom commissioned recently.
The PDP, therefore, called on the opposition APC to revert such attacks and join hands with the Ortom administration so as to end well, come May 29th, 2023.
It will be recalled that the State chapter of the APC, in a statement, accused the PDP administration of inaugurating the Community Volunteer Guards aimed at intimidating the opposition parties in next year’s general election in the state.
The party queried why the Samuel Ortom-led administration did not think of the Community Volunteer Guards, to curtail criminality in the state in the past seven years just to commission it at the twilight of the tenure.
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