NDC Governorship Candidate Says Killings In Benue Pose Existential Threat

The Benue State Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) governorship candidate, Prof. Terhemba Shija, has said the state is facing existential threat, following the continued attacks and killings across some communities by the suspected armed herdsmen.
In his acceptance speech as the party’s guber candidate in next year’s election, Shija lamented the current plight of Benue State, “Hundreds are butchered every other day in cold blood. Large swathes of ungoverned spaces are being created every week as murderous terrorists herdsmen and illegal miners take over ancestral lands.
“Scores of schools, hospitals, and markets have ceased to exist for many years in at least nine local government area...