Tag Governor Hyacinth Alia

2027: CHALLENGES OF FIFTH COLUMNISTS IN BENUE SOUTH

*Checking the Senatorial Aspirants of “NO ALIA, NO BENUE” and the Looming Disaster
*There will always be Benue without Alia

By Morgan Adikwu

As a new year begins and attention gradually shifts toward 2027, Benue South is once again confronted with a familiar and dangerous political reality. At a time when the district should be closing ranks to resist marginalisation, suppression, and deliberate neglect, some of its own sons are positioning themselves as collaborators in that very injustice. In political history, such actors are known as fifth columnists, individuals who operate from within to weaken their own people while serving external power.

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MBADINUJU SYNDROME IN BENUE: HOW GOVERNOR ALIA IS WALKING A FAMILIAR PATH OF OBSTINACY, INTIMIDATION, AND POLITICAL SELF-DESTRUCTION

*Why Governor Alia May Snub the Abbas-Led APC Reconciliation Committee

By Morgan Adikwu

History rarely announces itself loudly. More often, it returns quietly, through patterns, habits, and unchecked impulses. For those who remember Anambra State between 1999 and 2003, the rise and fall of Chinwoke Mbadinuju stands as a grim reminder of how power, once detached from restraint, party discipline, and institutional respect, collapses under its own weight.

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ABBA MORO vs. ALIA (II):

THE SILENCE, THE EXCLUSION, AND THE POLITICS OF PERSECUTION IN BENUE SOUTH

*How the US Delegation Snub Confirmed What Many Already Know

By Morgan Adikwu

For weeks, I observed the exchanges and counter-statements that followed Senator Abba Moro’s pointed question in Ogbadibo, Why has Governor Hyacinth Alia abandoned Benue South?

I listened to defenders of the governor, his loudest apologists, and even those from Benue South who now find comfort in attacking any agitation that reflects the pain of their own people.

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*Nentawe’s Acknowledgment of Akume as Leader

By Morgan Adikwu

Yesterday, October 4, 2025, Nigeria’s political heavyweights gathered in Jos to bid farewell to the late Mama Lydia Toma Yilwatda, beloved mother of All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda. One notable absence that spoke louder than the solemn hymns was that of the Benue State Governor, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia

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-The Benue Assembly Resolution that has not been Uphold

-A Tale of Misplaced Priorities and the Death of Educational Values

By Morgan Adikwu

On August 7, 2025, the Chief Press Secretary to the Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, Terver Zamber, issued a statement with a headline that carried the promise of a new dawn: “Benue Assembly to Honour Obekpa, Ordega for their Excellent Performance.”

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