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 The Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, and the entire South East have been pleaded with to, irrespective of party affiliation, stand with President Bola Tinubu. The plea was made on Thursday by the Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, during a visit to Otti in his office, following an inspection of ongoing federal road projects in the state—projects expected to be inaugurated by the President later this year. Umahi, who, appreciated the good, long standing relationship between Tinubu and Otti, noted that the President is doing many projects in the South East, stating, “We have every reason as Ndigbo and people of the South-East, irrespective of party affiliation, to stand with this man (President Tinubu) who is standing with the Southeast to rewrite our history and relaunch us into the mainstream of the federal government.  “So, I will not preach to you about support for the President because you have been the President’s very good friend, even before I came to know the President, and...

Human beings were murdered and the President went to Benue and spoke as if he was preparing for a campaign rally," the activist said. Human rights activist and lawyer Dele Farotimi has stated that it would have been better if President Bola Tinubu had not visited Benue State than to visit the state and remain unfeeling towards the plight of its people. Farotimi said the only person who said anything of note during the president’s visit to Makurdi, the Benue State capital on Wednesday, was the Tor Tiv V, James Ayatse, who described the attacks as a “calculated, well-planned, full-scale genocidal invasion and land grabbing campaign by herder terrorists and bandits”. “I must say very quickly that it would have been better if the president didn’t go,” the lawyer said on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief on Thursday. “The only thing worthy of anybody’s time was the words of the Tor Tiv, who spoke extensively to the reality of the situation in the Benue trough and spoke eloquently...