{"id":240211,"date":"2023-01-08T16:42:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T15:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=240211"},"modified":"2023-01-08T16:42:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T15:42:53","slug":"why-i-quit-pulpit-to-contest-for-benue-guber-election-apc-candidate-rev-fr-alia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/01\/08\/why-i-quit-pulpit-to-contest-for-benue-guber-election-apc-candidate-rev-fr-alia\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I quit pulpit to contest for Benue guber election \u2013 APC candidate, Rev. Fr Alia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Benue State, Reverend Father Hyacinth Alia, has explained why he quit the pulpit to contest for the state governorship election.<\/p>\n

Rev. Fr Alia said his quest of turning around Benue State into a better place and liberating the people from poverty was the reason he left the pulpit.<\/p>\n

The Catholic Church priest-turned-politician disclosed this on Sunday when he unveiled his strategic blueprints at a press briefing in Makurdi.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cI have a good cause to step out from the podium (pulpit) to do what I am doing because our state is in a bad shape. We have a responsibility to bring betterment for our state.<\/p>\n

\u201cBenue is too rich to be poor, to do anything less will be not to appreciate what God has done for us. My government will be centred on seven pillars \u2013 the foremost is to secure lives and property.<\/p>\n

Unveiling his blueprint, Rev. Fr Alia<\/a> said that his security plan would evolve a policy resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons, strengthen the implementation of the anti-open grazing law of the state as well as introduce the use of automated security systems among others to tackle the insecurity in the state.<\/p>\n

The clergyman said that if given the mandate in the forthcoming election, his administration will focus on agriculture and rural development, commerce and industry, human capital and social development, infrastructure and environment, information and communication technology and political as well as economic governance.<\/p>\n

The Rev. Fr said that all public health centres in the state would be upgraded and equipped while pregnant women will have access to free anti-natal care in all general hospitals and his administration will enforce free primary education.<\/p>\n

He also promised to run an inclusive government in the process of developing the state to a level the founding fathers of the state envisioned but which had been truncated due to bad governance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you have wrong people in government, the result is wrong. When you play by the principle of transparency, everything works.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe green revolution will make us come alive as it was in 1983 when Benue was indeed known as the \u2018food basket\u2019. The present government in the state has perforated the food basket. Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State bears testimony to all states saying President Muhammadu Buhari provided everything a state needs so why is Benue different?\u201d Alia posited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Benue State, Reverend Father Hyacinth Alia, has explained why he quit the pulpit to contest for the state governorship election. Rev. 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