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Gov Uba Sani Appoints New Commissioners, Redeploys Sani Bello for Education.
He has also redeployed the outgoing Commissioner for Education, Sani Bello (Mainan Zazzau), to the newly created Ministry of Information.
Ibraheem Musa, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, said in a statement that the Governor has also appointed Barrister Gloria Ibrahim as the Commissioner for Youth Development.
The appointments and redeployment take immediate effect.
In other news, the Benue State Caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the National Assembly on Wednesday endorsed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as its sole candidate for the 2027 presidential election.
The endorsement, which came during a press briefing at the National Assembly Complex in Abuja, makes the Benue APC Caucus the first legislative group in the 10th Assembly to formally declare support for President Tinubu’s re-election bid.
Speaking on behalf of the group, Senator Titus Zam (Benue North-West) said the decision was based on the president’s “transformative leadership” and the numerous federal interventions in Benue State since the beginning of his administration in May 2023.
Flanked by Senator Emmanuel Udende (Benue North-East) and ten APC members of the House of Representatives from Benue, Zam listed a number of infrastructure projects, economic initiatives, and security efforts credited to the Tinubu administration.
Among the highlighted projects are the 465-kilometre Calabar–Ebonyi–Benue–Nasarawa–Abuja Superhighway, the reconstruction of the Makurdi–Aliade–Otukpo–Enugu Road, and the dualization of the 9th Mile–Otukpo–Makurdi Road. Others include the ₦83.8 billion Buruku Bridge across the Katsina-Ala River, the rehabilitation of the Oju–Cross River federal road, and the construction of a flyover at Wurukum Roundabout in Makurdi.
The Caucus also pointed to federal support for health and education in the state, citing improved funding for the Federal University of Health Sciences, Otukpo (FUHSO), and its teaching hospital.
