By Chiangi Avese, Makurdi
The singular desire is to take the state from the low valley of misery and deprivation to the mountaintop of economic growth and development.
Chief Press Secretary to the governor of Benue state, Sir Tersoo Kula said this in a press statement made available to The Authority in Makurdi on 17th August 2023,
Mr. Kula said, “The emergence of Governor Alia as the governor of Benue state, widely celebrated, must be seen as a divine intervention in the affairs of the state after a long period of the locust years characterized by bad governance and misuse of the limited resources available to the state by the previous government”.
Describing the governor’s mandate as divine, the CPS pointed out that, “Gov. Hyacinth Alia’s taking over the reins of power truly signaled renewed hope for the disheveled diverse segments of the Benue society”.
The statement further noted that “months of unpaid salaries and years of owed pensions and gratuities made life miserable for most citizens of the state. Workers and pensioners kept hoping against hope and wondering who would bail the proverbial cat out of the bag and turn their situation around for good”.
“This is why the people of Benue state without equivocations trusted the Reverend Gentleman to arrest the situation and redefine governance in the state. Fortunately, that is just what His Excellency is doing. He has hit the ground running by redefining governance and restoring decency in government business”, the statement pointed out.
The CPS in the statement said, “Governor Alia has ended the era of business as usual and brought about a new order and a new way of doing things. Business as usual with him is gone and gone for good. This is obvious in the pattern of the decisions taken so far and the appointments made”.
“A closer look at the appointments Governor Alia has made into his cabinet reveals that he is set to do things differently. He, in response to the earnest yearnings of the mass of the state, consciously moved away from the tradition of perpetual recycling people in government and went on to appoint fresh hands with competence, character, and capacity to deliver the goods”, the statement said.
The governor, according to the statement, “is wont to pouring fresh wine into new wineskins as reflected in his first key appointments such as yours sincerely as the Chief Press Secretary CPS; Secretary to the state government SSG; Chief of Staff CoS were made, countless people could see that we were mostly new kids on the block. It is crystal clear that it is not recycled elements that would come on to continue the tradition of business as usual. The same pattern could be seen in the list of commissioners, advisers, and special assistants that have been unveiled”, the statement further said.
The statement stressed that Gov. Alia has given hope to the hopeless and indeed all segments of the Benue society with their various interests fully represented in his government. The paradigm shift in the governance of the state is meant to move the state forward.
“There is equally a wide commendation for the governor’s appointment of round pegs in round holes. He has made true the popular assertion that “it is youth o’clock.” He has given the youth a fair and full representation in his cabinet by nominating very young people as commissioners, advisers, and assistants. By appointing this caliber of young people into his cabinet, he is clearly saying that the youth are not just the leaders of tomorrow; they are leaders of today and that the future is now”.
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