Benue Flood: APC Chairman, Oyegun Visits Victims

National Chairman, All Progressive Congress (APC), Mr John Oyegun, on Thursday confirmed that the party was packaging a relief programme for victims of the Benue floods...

Oyegun, after visiting some of the areas affected by the disaster stated that the party would strive to cushion the effect on those affected.

Represented by the National Deputy Chairman, South, Chief Segun Oni, Oyegun said that the party leadership was in Benue to show support to sympathise with the state and the flood victims.

“APC is packaging a relief programme that will not only alleviate the sufferings of flood victims, but benefit the entire Benue people.

“The relief programme will be in batches; the first batch will arrive this week.

“The disaster is unfortunate and should not be a reoccurring decimal because it happened few years ago; we must now begin to dredge River Benue and other rivers, to put an end to it.

“We must also begin to make sure that we use the shore lands of these rivers as it is done in other parts of the world, for the public good,” he said.

Oyegun said that what happened to the Benue people had affected the entire country, adding that the APC family was with them.