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Rice, ₦2k & a Warning in Otukpo

In Otukpo, Benue State, the Special Adviser to Governor Hyacinth Alia on Youth Organisations, Mr. Gbenda Terver, was captured on video distributing ₦2,000 cash and 10kg bags of rice to residents.

The gesture itself is familiar. What stood out was the accompanying instruction: beneficiaries were told to chase out anyone who comes into Otukpo to campaign against the governor.

The video shows young men lining up, collecting their bags of Tomato rice, and moving on. No speeches about development, no long-term programmes — just cash, rice, and a clear political condition attached.

In Nigerian politics, this is not new. Empowerment programmes often blur into open inducement, especially as election seasons approach. The difference here is how openly the condition was stated on camera.

For supporters, it is loyalty and grassroots mobilisation.
For critics, it is a textbook example of how poverty is leveraged for political control.

Either way, the image is striking: grown men queuing for 10kg of rice and ₦2,000, while being told to protect the political territory of the man who sent them the gift.

Otukpo just provided another snapshot of how power is currently being contested — and defended — in Benue.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnCgR_-j3cc?si=7owDXfBT6-rRbd2w

We are in a very big mess in this country, imagine collecting 2k from APC and you buy fuel for #1500 a litter.
NDC ✌️ is our hope

We are in a very big mess in this country, imagine collecting 2k from APC and you buy fuel for #1500 a litter.
It's only God that will vindicate us in 2027 election

I can bet anything. Many of them are members of Nairaland, .....boasting and chest beating .....

We are not serious in this country
I can see benuejosh and helinues there

Everything about Benue is backward.

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Rice, ₦2k & a Warning in Otukpo

In Otukpo, Benue State, the Special Adviser to Governor Hyacinth Alia on Youth Organisations, Mr. Gbenda Terver, was captured on video distributing ₦2,000 cash and 10kg bags of rice to residents.

The gesture itself is familiar. What stood out was the accompanying instruction: beneficiaries were told to chase out anyone who comes into Otukpo to campaign against the governor.

The video shows young men lining up, collecting their bags of Tomato rice, and moving on. No speeches about development, no long-term programmes — just cash, rice, and a clear political condition attached.

In Nigerian politics, this is not new. Empowerment programmes often blur into open inducement, especially as election seasons approach. The difference here is how openly the condition was stated on camera.

For supporters, it is loyalty and grassroots mobilisation.
For critics, it is a textbook example of how poverty is leveraged for political control.

Either way, the image is striking: grown men queuing for 10kg of rice and ₦2,000, while being told to protect the political territory of the man who sent them the gift.

Otukpo just provided another snapshot of how power is currently being contested — and defended — in Benue.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnCgR_-j3cc?si=7owDXfBT6-rRbd2w

That Benue governor is easily one of the coarsest politicians around. From his demeanor to his utterances to his actions, it's hard to find anything to redeem the man. Smh.

Mmmmmh, in deed APC was a time bomb

Yep. Weaponised poverty is the only platform APC has.

He did excellently well. Congratulations to the receivers amd beneficiaries.

Coward people. Benue people are funny

As a governor, why not think of how to ease your citizens' sufferings with viable initiatives?
Shame on all of you. Shame

Benue....... This is why I don't side with then when their husbands that follows cow strike them.

The goal is simple, collect their gifts and vote for the right person ....

This is the lawlessness the APC have introduced in everywhere across this nation.This is becoming a familiar pattern with state backed actors and serving SSAs promoting rhetorics like this and issuing threats against opposition and other ethnicities.

This behaviour will only further isolate the president in other regions and confine his votes to the SW. If anything, it shows that Tinubu cannot win even his own SW region without the use of brute force, intimidation and coercion.

Imagine all these anti-democratic elements kept on threatening Nigerians against exercising their rights.These are indeed serious inflammatory statements by APC party stalwarts that DSS should look into.

He learned very well from the man who feeds the whole Lagos at his gate at Bourdillion, with ewedu and amala every morning..

Indirect vote buying


Shameless country people

Can't they reject this ridiculous gesture? What's wrong with Nigerians for heaven's sake?

Some of you can not do well on this platform without us. If una no mention our names, comment no go complete.

Niok:
We are not serious in this country
I can see benuejosh and helinues there

And according to them, they have invested in d minds of d youth?

Nwaokunkpara:
Indirect vote buying


Shameless country people

No dignity whatsoever. If the people can be induce with ordinary 2k, then our redemption is not coming any time soon. Nigerians need to suffer more before they have sense.

I guess the SSA is omenka

No be TuBaba Otukpo be this?

Is the governor still a reverend father, or he has been sacked?

Anyway, if Tunde Bakare still has people worshipping him then Alia should carry go.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x5IMzjHPug

Did you ask them.to reject this gesture by a whole governor of a state?

Treasure17:
Can't they reject this ridiculous gesture? What's wrong with Nigerians for heaven's sake?

benuejosh:
Some of you can not do well on this platform without us. If una no mention our names, comment no go complete.

Cause they know that all your worth depends on peanuts.

benuejosh:
Did you ask them.to reject this gesture by a whole governor of a state?

They are responsible for their decisions same as the consequences.

Hmmm...APC is playing a very wicked politics, make the people poor, and have them inside your pocket. Chai😯

We don't do opposition politics in benue state

benuejosh:
Did you ask them.to reject this gesture by a whole governor of a state?

Yes they distributed kerosene, they never call for other politicians not to come and campaign in their state. that's the difference 😊

Sigh... One would have thought that a state being governed by a man of the cloth would be far ahead in every aspect and sector.

There might truly be no hope for this nation if clergymen can become no different from corrupt politicians while in power.

All these ones include their fallen reverend Horton father have sold their souls to the devil.