Benue State youths drawn from 22 traditional area districts of Benue South have protested against the attack on Prof. Innocent Ujah, who was named the first vice chancellor of the University of Health Sciences located in the zone.
They also praised President Bola Tinubu’s infrastructural strides in the area, which, they said, resulted in the long-awaited establishment of the institution; the first federal university in the region.
The youths, who took to the streets of Abuja to express their gratitude, yesterday, noted that since the creation of Benue State from the old Benue Plateau State in 1976, the zone had waited patiently for such development.
The youths, however, appealed to the consciences of some aggrieved persons in the host community of Otukpo Local Council, urging them to see reason why Benue South Senatorial District should have, at least, one university in an area that occupies nine large local councils and could even be called a state.
Speaking through their leader, Daniel Edoache Atayi, the youths cautioned against attacks on Ujah, a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology. He urged the aggrieved persons not to allow politics of animosity and self-centeredness rob them of good things.
He urged people to desist from actions that may disparage Ujah, who, according to him, is revered in the country as one of the pillars of medical studies, and the immediate past president Nigerian Medical Association (NMA).
“We must never allow awkward politicians who serve only their interests to disparage Ujah. We know him to be a man of positive struggles for emancipation, and we believe he will set a great record,” he added.
