The Marginalisation of Benue Zone C

Portrait of Chris Echikwu, a Nigerian commodity market expert and former General Manager for Corporate Communications and Strategy at the Nigeria Commodity Exchange, photographed in a professional setting.

Decades of political exclusion have pushed Benue State’s Zone C to a breaking point. As Idoma and Igede leaders grow increasingly alienated from the ruling APC, an organised shift toward the ADC is underway—one that could dismantle the party’s grassroots machinery and jeopardise President Bola Tinubu’s 2027 re-election prospects in a state he cannot afford to lose.