By Austin Angwe, Makurdi
The chairman, Unity Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Benue State, Dr. Benjamin Omale has declared that the presence of former Senate President David Mark in the opposition African Democratic Congress (ADC) has posed no threat to either to the success of the APC in zone C or its victory in the 2027 general elections.
Omale who made the declaration while interacting with journalists recently at the party’s secretariat in Makurdi, described the likes of former Senate President David Mark, Ex-Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar and former Kaduna governor Malam Nasir El-Rufai as group of selfish politicians using the coalition to pursue personal agendas, having lost patronage in the current political dispensation.
“Go to Otukpo and other parts of Idoma land and find out for yourselves, you are journalists. Is it the man who as senate president for eight years could not influence rehabilitation of the road to his hometown Otukpo where he presently resides? David Mark till today comes to Otukpo on helicopter, is that the type of person you think should be a threat to the APC? ” Omale queried, insisting that the ex-Senate President has no such followership in Idoma land as outsiders may think.
Concerning El- Rufai, Omale argued that if the former Kaduna governor was offered ministerial position in the Tinubu administration as he expected, he would certainly not be complaining.
He urged Nigerians to ask questions why El-Rufai campaigned for President Tinubu and the sudden attacks, advising Nigerians to be weary of selfish politicians such as Atiku Abubakar whose unending presidential ambition he noted should be viewed with suspicion, especially when he feels that no Nigerian leader of recent has performed satisfactory enough to make him abandon his many decades of presidential ambition.
He advised Nigerians to equally be wary of those who want to use them, explaining that only tools should be used by human beings instead,as those in the coalition are fighting today because they are not in government.
Omale insisted that the APC both at the national level and in Benue State was intact and is not afraid of any individual, coalition or political party.
The State Unity Caretaker Committee Chairman of the APC, expressed optimism that with the infrastructural transformation Reverend Father Hyacinth Alia has brought to the state within two years of his administration, APC will continue to succeed because the party came to power by the grace of God and will maintain its lead because of its performance.