Benue: Why my Tiv brothers should consider an Idoma – Abagu

 ssue of minority should not come there. Because if they were minority, they shouldn’t have had a senator just like the other zones have.

The issue that should be emphasized here is that if we are truly practicing zoning like we have practiced zoning in terms of senatorial seat, why can’t we practice zoning when it comes to gubernatorial seat.

Some of your Tiv brothers are alleged to have sworn that over their dead bodies would an Idoma person become governor. Is it really an abomination?

Well, you see people are free to make their opinion and I think I am also free to air my opinion. But I think that these things are done depending on the circumstances.

Whatever the case, I am sure they must have made it due to certain circumstances and those circumstances have changed now. So I think for purpose of good integration, fairness, justice and equity, they could have a change of mind. I am sincerely believing that they could have a change of mind.

And I know we have an amiable governor who thinks very straight and I am sure he will not be against that kind of thing.

So would you now urge the outgoing governor to payback the support he got from Zone C in 2007?

Yes, you might call it that. I think in politics, it is piggyback, it is a piggyback game. So I think if someone donated votes to him at that time, it should be a payback time.

I don’t want to really base it on the payback bases. I want to base it on fairness, justice and equity. That this thing has been rotating from one zone to another, why can’t we try zone C also? And if we are saying that zone C is too small, then why do we retain it as a senatorial zone?

Source:Vanguard