Senate Minority Leader, George Akume, the Benue state Governor Gabriel Suswam and the governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Prof. Steven Ugba, yesterday, resolved to put behind their political differences in the interest of the state.
The trio, who hugged each other yesterday at the NKST church Idyu in Tse-Agberagba, Konshisha Local Government were reunited through the initiative of the former Nigerian Ambassador to Canada, Prof. Iyorwuese Hagher.
Akume said: “I love Gabriel Suswam from the bottom of my heart. It is Gabriel that has done what he shouldn’t have done to me. He left me and ganged up with his supporters to dent my political image. We speak the same language and we can also throw away our differences and find better ways of bringing rapid development to our state.”
The former governor further disclosed that reconciling with governor Suswam was not a difficult task for him but insisted that Wantaregh Paul Unongo and other prominent Tiv sons needed to be present before he can take a definite decision.
But Ugba, while speaking at NKST Church Idyu, in Tse-Agberagba, Konshisha Local Government, during the thanksgiving in honour of Senator Barnabas Gemade, insisted that he was ready to join hands with governor Suswam to move the state forward.
He stated: “I came here to honour this thanksgiving, I was not invited but I came. I thank God because I am here and to stand and hug with Governor Suswam. But Suswam has not killed me, we only need to sit and talk.”
Now I feel that this is the beginning of how we can have time, talk and reconcile.
For me, I came in peace and whatever I can do to make our nation grow, I am ready.”
Prof. Ugba said, though Suswam was his younger brother, he did not have any grudge against him and that his concern was to evolve better means of enhancing development in the state and not to ferment troubles or cause disunity among? Tiv sons.
Speaking explicitly, Governor Gabriel Suswam said that he was not holding any brief against the senate minority leader as he was claiming but revealed that Akume was the major cause of all the political ripples that were ragging in the state.