The crisis rocking Benue APC has escalated beyond control in the past days. Benue has been home to political drama throughout last week.

Gov Alia in his desperate move to remove the State Chairman, Comrade Austin Agada turned the peaceful state into chaos.

The drama first started with a petition by Comrade Daniel Onjeh against Agada for anti-party of a general elections that happened 9 months ago. It didn't gain enough weight.

The second action in their scripts was to illegally use a former Ward Chairman (who is now a Supervisory Councillor) and eight non executives to announce the suspension of Comrade Austin Agada as the State Chairman. That move failed as the National Working Committee of APC foiled their plans by officially writing a press release to affirm Austin's position as the bonafide chairman of the party in Benue State.

Not satisfied with that outcome, Gov Alia went on physical assault by sending his CSO with armed men to vandalize the state secretariat that he refused to renovate. It was Comrade Agada that painstakingly remodeled the new and befitting state secretariat. Videos are online of the Governor's vandalization of the state secretariat and beating of secretariat staff.

Their next move was to use the state judiciary as a weapon by concoting and announcing a court injunction restraining Comrade Austin Agada to stop parading himself as the State Chairman of the party.

The State Governor connived with some Zone C Elders who are principally members of the G9 rebel political group that fought Alia's emergence as Governor. Strange fellows that are now his new political allies announced and recommended that Hon Omakolo be used by the Governor as acting State Chairman.

Coincidentally, the announcement collided with the suspension of Hon Omakolo's membership of the party from his Igoro Ward. The reason for the suspension was given as misappropriation of funds, gross insubordination, non-payment of party dues and anti-party activities during the general elections. The suspension was ratified by APC Apa LGA Working Committee and APC State Working Committee. So the suspended Omakolo cannot parade himself as acting State Chairman as masterminded by the Governor.

We heard on authority that, upon hearing of Omakolo's suspension, the Governor quickly called the Caretaker Chairman of Apa LGA to look for the Igoro Ward Chairman and entice him and other ward executives with huge funds to Government House. The plan is to persuade them to grant a press conference denying publicly that they didn't author the suspension of Omakolo. It took the Governor 3 days of luring, threatening and persuading them to accept the denial plan. From Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th of February 2024 before the Governor succeeded to hold the press conference.

The railing stones unleashed at the State Chairman, Comrade Austin Agada is not unconnected with his refusal to betray the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume. Gov Alia is hell bent on retiring the SGF from Benue Politics. He sidelined all the loyalists of the SGF from State Appointments. Now, he wants to hijack the party structure from the SGF who is not just the Leader of APC in Benue State but the Political Leader of the Tiv Nation in the Order of Senator J. S Tarka of late memory. If you don't align with Senator Akume, then you are ready to lose the huge votes of Tiv Nation and Benue at large.

We sit on the pavilion to watch how events unfold as Gov Alia acts out his evil scripts. But people are already asking if the Governor is a Mafia or a Priest.