{"id":79973,"date":"2025-12-10T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79973"},"modified":"2025-12-10T08:00:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T08:00:54","slug":"benue-must-move-beyond-apology-politics-embrace-development-cps-kula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/10\/benue-must-move-beyond-apology-politics-embrace-development-cps-kula\/","title":{"rendered":"Benue Must Move Beyond Apology Politics, Embrace Development -CPS Kula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sir Tersoo Kula, Chief Press Secretary to Governor Hyacinth Iormem Alia, has urged Benue State to abandon decades of transactional politics dominated by cycles of political installation, fallout, and public apology, calling instead for a focus on development and good governance.<\/p>\n<p>Kula traced the pattern back to 2011, noting how factions aligned with Senator George Akume repeatedly installed leaders such as Gabriel Suswam and Samuel Ortom, only to later stage public apologies when alliances faltered.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, these apologies were often political maneuvers, not genuine attempts to address mismanagement or failures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder Governor Alia, Benue has seen a break from this old formula,\u201d Kula said. \u201cSalaries and pensions are paid, infrastructure is being rebuilt, public institutions are strengthened, and governance is stabilizing. Yet, the same voices continue their ritualistic apologies, not for any failure, but because their old tactics no longer work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He criticized political actors who, in pursuit of control and personal gain, have historically weaponized poverty and dependency, keeping the people marginalized while feigning moral authority.<\/p>\n<p>Kula emphasized that the era of transactional politics must give way to development politics rooted in competence, accountability, and continuity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Benue people are tired of blame games and political distractions,\u201d he added. \u201cThis is the moment for progress, for stability, and for leaders who protect, not plunder, the commonwealth of the people. Benue deserves better, and under Governor Alia, Benue will continue to rise.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0 Sir Tersoo Kula, Chief Press Secretary to Governor Hyacinth Iormem Alia, has urged Benue State to abandon decades of transactional politics dominated by cycles of political installation, fallout, and public apology, calling instead for a focus on development and good governance. Kula traced the pattern back to 2011, noting how factions aligned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79975,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79973\/revisions\/79975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}