The quest of the Benue South people to produce the Governor of Benue State is a democratic one, purposefully, for democratic Executive power sharing and inclusion.
This quest is never a provocation and or antagonism against the Tiv majority Tribe of the State, rather a plea for justice, democratic equity and fairness!
You would agree with me that Benue is sitting on Three (3) senatorial districts categorized into Zones:
We have Zone A with Seven (7) Local Government Areas,
Zone B with Seven (7) Local Government Areas too, and
Zone C with Nine (9) Local Government Areas.
Zones A and B senatorial districts with Seven LGAs each, belong to the majority Tribe of the Tiv nation with other minority tribes like Etilo, Jukun and others within it. Collectively, they have Fourteen (14) LGAs as Tiv ethnic group of Benue State.
The Third (3rd) being the Zone C Senatorial district with Nine LGAs, which is the ‘minority Tribe’ belonging to the Idoma nation and other intra-minority tribes like Igede, Ufia, Ezis and Ezas within it.
While the Two Tiv senatorial Zones of A and B which are from the Tripod upon which the State stands, have produced Six (6) indigenous democratically elected Executive Governors of the State; the Zone C of the Idoma Speaking area which is the Third (3rd) amongst the Tripod, hasn’t produced one democratically elected Executive Governor of the State.
This odd Democratic history, with unfair practice of successive political bias, entrenched the power inequalities in the State from successive democratic dispensations since 1976 of our political lexicon when the State was created from the old Benue Plateau State.
This is the justice we seek from our political democratic Actors, constitution and legislation.