“The enthusiasm in our communities, towns and villages is real and growing daily. Our people are ready to speak with one voice at the ballot. They are ready to affirm their earnest call for consolidation”.
BY TERSOO KULA
Your Excellency,
Benue has waited for a day like yesterday. The farmers, the traders, the workers, the students, the youth, the women and the pensioners.
Although the nation’s electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), had confirmed and published Your Excellency’s name on its website, our people continued to watch amid deliberate and calculated disinformation from some strange quarters suggesting that the Governor might not get the chance to fly the party’s flag again.
Yesterday in Jos, that mischievous conjecture was put to rest as the leadership of the APC formally presented the party’s flag to Governor Hyacinth Alia as its governorship candidate for the 2027 election.
The event was not just a ceremony. It was a bold statement by the APC. A party gives its flag only to a person it trusts with its name. Yesterday, the party looked at Benue and said, “We still have confidence in Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia.”
That conviction was not given in a vacuum. It was earned through your work in Benue and the confidence our people repose in your leadership.
Your Excellency, when the National Chairman placed that flag in your hands in the presence of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, and the entire leadership of the North-Central, it was a confirmation of responsibility and reliability.
You are returning home now with the assurance that the full weight of the party is behind you.
The Campaign writes to express, through you, our profound appreciation to the leadership of our dominant party at the centre.
Your Excellency, leadership is tested not when things are easy but when there is pressure from every side. It is reassuring that the President has shown firmness by providing a clear direction for members of our great party to follow. That firmness gave us unity in Jos, and it is the same firmness that will guide us, and you, to victory.
As a Campaign Council, we also wish to give, through you, a firm assurance to the national leadership that Benue, with Alia on the ballot, will not disappoint.
We say this not out of mere optimism. It is what we see on the ground every day. The enthusiasm in our communities, towns and villages is real and growing daily. Our people are ready to speak with one voice at the ballot. They are ready to affirm their earnest call for consolidation.
In line with the directive of Jagaban himself that we go out, mobilise and win every ward, we express our full readiness to comb the length and breadth, the nooks and crannies of this state, to legitimately fish out votes for the APC and all its candidates. We will do it ward by ward, community by community and house by house. We will do it with organisation, discipline and respect for the rules. This much we sincerely promise to commit ourselves to.
Your Excellency, once again, congratulations. Be assured that we are fully prepared. The masses are prepared, and we are confident of victory.
