Alia camp rejects Akume-led alliance, says APC needs no partnership to win

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The Alia-Tinubu Campaign Council has rejected the newly unveiled strategic alliance for Tinubu/Shettima Re-election 2027, describing the Council as contemptuous ...

The Alia-Tinubu Campaign Council has rejected the newly unveiled strategic alliance for Tinubu/Shettima Re-election 2027, describing the Council as contemptuous and injurious to the fortunes of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its electioneering machinery in the State as coordinated by Governor Hyacinth Alia.

The rejection was contained in a text of a press briefing by Richard Asema, Director General, Tinubu/Alia 2027 Campaign Council, Benue State, held at the Campaign Secretariat on Friday said Alia/Tinubu did not need any strategic alliance to win the 2027 elections.

Asema said the party views with serious concern the purported formation of the Alliance by some political individuals and groups and the subsequent announcement of a Campaign Council for the re-election of President Bola Tinubu describing such as an act of mischief aimed at misleading the public.

According to him, “a critical look at the membership of the so-called Campaign Council reveals that governorship candidates of other political parties, especially the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP), as well as officers of some other minority parties, are members of the group.”

“The party also observed that the Alliance is populated by some members of the APC, some of whom are holding senior positions in the Federal Government, including George Akume, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), and Joseph Utsev, Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation.

“The APC in Benue State, under the leadership of Governor Hyacinth Alia and the chairmanship of Benjamin Omale, wishes to strongly reject the purported Strategic Alliance and its Campaign Council”, Asema said.

He described the Council as contemptuous and injurious to the fortunes of the APC and its electioneering machinery in the state as being coordinated by Governor Alia”

“From all credible intelligence available to the party, Asema said, the Strategic Alliance has a hidden agenda, which is to sabotage the election of…

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