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The Governor of Benue State, Rev Fr Hyacinth Alia, has inaugurated a new working committee for the state's All Progressive Congress.
It was held at the factional party secretariat close to the Government House, Makurdi.
The Benue State APC has been enmeshed in a crisis following the sacking of state APC Chairman, Austin Agada, by his Ehaje council ward and a subsequent court decision restraining him from parading himself as the state’s party chairman.
This led to the appointment of Benjamin Omakolo as acting chairman by the state executive committee headed by Governor Alia.
On January 12, the Benue State Chief Judge, Justice Maurice Ikpampese, vacated the earlier court order and reinstated Agada as party chairman.
Ikpampese however asked all party members to withdraw all cases in court as a prelude to resolving the internal crisis.
Agada’s working committee, through the state APC Legal Adviser, Alyebo Mathew, filed a notice of withdrawal on March 25, 2024, on a case filed by the chairman and was consequently struck out by Justice T.A. Kume.
Incidentally, the same day Agada’s case was struck out, the state governor represented by his Chief of Staff, Paul Biam, constituted the new state working committee led by Omakolo.
