Benue deputy speaker drums support for new speaker, mobilizes constituents for INEC CVR exercise

From Attah Ede, Makurdi 

The Deputy Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly and member representing Ado State Constituency, Lami Danladi-Ogenyi, has described the emergence of Mr. Alfred Emberga as new speaker of the house as a welcome development and a right choice made by members.

She maintained that the new speaker has always been a very sincere and principled personality who usually reasoned with his colleagues before taking any decision.

The deputy speaker stated this while interacting with newsmen at her office in Makurdi.

She however assured the people of the state that, with the new leadership  of the House under Emberga, would, through its legislative responsibilities, enact laws that would benefit the state, particularly youths and women.

“I expect all the members of the assembly to support the speaker, Alfred Emberga. Already he is doing well and I think the more support they give him, he will do better. So I urged the members to support him and with more support he will do beyond our expectations.

“The new speaker is a sincere and very principled person at the same time; I can assure the Benue people that with him, we will make some laws that will help the youth and women of Benue State. Today, other members are happy and I’m happy”, Danladi stated.

On her relationship with other women political appointees, the Deputy Speaker, said, “I have a very good relationship with other political appointees. In the assembly – we are only two women, me and Mrs. Becky Orpin – we have a mother and daughter relationship working together. I always meet her for advice and she always gives me the necessary support.

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Speaking on the ongoing INEC continuous voters registration exercise, the Ado representatives called on Benue residents, particularly  her constituents to come out enmasse to register during the exercise.

 She insisted that the Permanent Voter’s Card (PVC) is their weapon to ensure Governor Hyacinth Alia secures a second term in office in 2027.

In her capacity, the Deputy Speaker said she had mobilized people in her Ado constituency to participate in the registration exercise.

She said, “As a woman, I am a mobiliser, and immediately the exercise began, I set up a committee across the 10 council wards of Ado LGA. I have asked them to call on all our supporters to go to the INEC office to register so that they can obtain their PVCs.

“The PVC is their weapon because that is what they are going to use to vote for our governor, His Excellency, Hyacinth Alia, for a second term in 2027.”

“The people also raised the issue of mobility, and we have made arrangements for motorcycles to convey them. We are talking about taking 10 motorcycles to each ward because we have a lot of followers.

“Instead of providing 10 motorcycles for each ward, we can also make arrangements for a 20-seater bus to transport people. In addition to that, we can still purchase about 10 motorcycles.

“These arrangements have already been made to buy 10 motorcycles to be distributed to our campaign coordinators, as we are still maintaining our 2023 election structure, and those are the people we are working with.”