BENUE ABUJA ELITE LEAGUE- RethinkingAPC Congresses
The lingering spectacle of parallel congresses within the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Benue State is more than a mere procedural gap or irregularity; it is a consciously well crafted philosophical contradiction.
Political parties are built on shared vision, and submission to common rules and guides. When political appointees and elected members of the National Assembly choose to conduct congresses outside national directives, they are not merely contesting structure. They are consciously, deliberately contesting, disrupting the very philosophy of partisanship or political party essence.
Politics is the art of harmonizing differences toward a common, shared good. Not an arena for parallel sovereignties as is the contemporary trend around what Benue Abuja politicians are practicing. The logic of “parallel congresses” is the logic of fragmentation, powered either for self destruct or collective mishap.
Benue’s Abuja APC political elite must reflect deeply on the burden of representation. Being in the NASS or appointed at the national level in Abuja is not to acquire or re-create an APC version as a private territorial intra- partisan field. No.
Any representation or Influence without alignment to APC administration and state governance is actually SABOTAGE. You do not carve a niche arbitrarily. That is even why the brazen emboldening posturing Benue-Abuja elites makes one to conclude there is certainly a BIG MASQUERADING prophet doing the divisive incantations.
When Benue leaders in Abuja operate at cross-purposes with the state government, they inadvertently weaken both the party and the state they claim to serve. Infact they make it easier to be accused of either usurping or undermining or totally wishing Benue State and Governor Alia bad.
Political capital is not infinite, and when expended in internal rivalry it could end up creating no good for rivals.
Benue did not entrust power to their Abuja legislators and appointees to be squandered in factional chess games.
Where is institutional respect for APC national and even the office of Governor!
APC National directives create uniformity to protect the party from centrifugal forces. If each state chapter interprets or defies these directives according to local calculations, the party becomes a confederation of ambitions rather than a unified movement.
True loyalty is about adherence to structure, order, directive.
This moment for Congresses of APC calls for statesmanship, not brinkmanship, and political appointees and Benue National Assembly members must recognize the larger architecture of power and authority. Cooperating with Gov. Alia governor is strategic maturity, and a more dignified path to settle “ambitions” than by gang up or doing “students unionism”.
Governance is about synergy between executive authority at the state level and representation at the federal Abuja level. When that synergy collapses (as is seeming), development slows or is paused.
Philosophically speaking, unity is not uniformity but “disciplined plurality”.
Benue Abuja ambassadors should re-think and tow the path of reconciliation, and institutional fidelity over the “ego-trip” of factional clamour and agitations as they are currently exhibiting.
Benue Ambassadors in Abuja and their advisers must decide whether history should see them as builders or destroyers. Tomorrow will not judge who controlled Congress; it will judge who preserved the APC. Who respected APC as an institution.
It is hightime our Benue Abuja college of elite take a deep breath and allow a modicum of sanity to prevail.
ALIALITY- 2nd Edition
4th March 2026
