Governor Alia: The tragedy of power without direction by Tersoo Adagher

It is shocking, disappointing and utterly irresponsible for Governor Hyacinth Alia to stand before the world and claim that “there is no ethnic or racial genocide in Benue State.”
Such a statement is not only false , it is an insult to the thousands of innocent men, women and children massacred across Benue over the years.
Benue has witnessed some of the worst mass killings in Nigeria’s modern history entire villages wiped out, communities displaced, farmlands destroyed, and families living in perpetual fear. These atrocities did not happen in the governor’s imagination; they happened on Benue soil, to Benue people.
For a leader who swore an oath to protect his citizens to now stand before the international community and deny their suffering shows one thing: Governor Alia is out of touch with reality, or deliberately choosing political convenience over truth and justice.
Nigeria does not need leaders who sanitize atrocities to please foreign partners.
Nigeria needs leaders who will stand with their people, acknowledge the truth, demand accountability, and confront the terror that has destroyed countless lives.
To claim there is “no genocide” in Benue is not just a lie , it is a betrayal of the victims, a betrayal of history, and a betrayal of the Nigerian people.
Governor Alia should retract this reckless statement and begin to speak the truth. Silence and denial only embolden the killers.

How worse could it hurt to be betrayed by the one who once served Holy Communion to the victims of this Islamist genocidal massacres?

I can boldly say that Power, in the hands of the unprepared, often reveals its most dangerous paradox: that a man can inherit a throne he cannot interpret. What Benue is witnessing under Father Alia is not governance; it is the tragedy of accident elevated to authority; a government stumbling in daylight and calling it progress.Benue State today stands like a ship whose captain mistook the wheel for a steering toy. In Two years plus Gov Alia has managed to drain the last reserves of public confidence, turning governance into a spectacle of confusion, mediocrity, and misdirection.
His administration resembles a man who suddenly came into massive inheritance without the faintest idea what to do with it — the political equivalent of a next of kin startled by unexpected fortune. Every decision betrays unpreparedness, every policy exposes uncertainty.
When the story of this period is told, it will be said that Benue once endured a government that mistook accident for mandate and ceremonial flamboyance for vision.

Adagher is an Abuja based political analyst