NewsPoliticsChief of Staff, four Commissioners Resigns In Benue

MAKURDI — Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Chief of Staff to the Benue State Governor, Pastor Terwase Orbunde, and four commissioners have tendered their resignation letters to enable them to face their political ambitions.

The commissioners include; Information, Culture and Tourism, Mrs. Ngunan Addingi; Environment and Water Resources, Engr Dondo Ahire; Education, Professor Dennis Ityavyar and that of Youth and Sports, Comrade Ojemba Ojotu.

The former appointees confirmed their resignation separately to newsmen in Makurdi.

Former Chief of staff, Orbunde, former Environment commissioner and the former Education commissioner are eyeing the seat of their principal in the coming election.

Adding former information Commissioner and her counterpart in Youth and Sports, Ojotu are warming up for the seat of House of Representatives in their various constituencies.

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Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.

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