Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has bared his mind on the situation in Benue State. “The EFCC should look into the Paris Club refund allocation to Benue State because there is paucity of infrastructure in the state. The governor should be asked to account for the money and other allocations he has received in nearly two years in office.”

“Benue people are suffering because they don’t have dividends of democracy. It was because of the concern for the suffering of the Benue people and respect as well as value I have for elder statesmen from the state that I have elected to reconstruct Makurdi-Naka-Adoka road and Aliade-Oju-Obarike-Ito-Otukpo road in Benue State. The contracts would cost me N4 billion and the roads “bill of quantity” had already been issued.”

“I sympathise with the suffering of Benue people. I value and respect the likes JS Tarka, Apar Aku, George Akume, Victor Malu and David Mark, all prominent indigenes of the state. That’s why I am financing the reconstruction of the roads. I think there is need for a probe of the finances of the state.”