The Benue River or Bénoué River is the major tributary of the River Niger. The river is approximately 1,400 km long and is almost entirely navigable during the summer months. As a result, it is an important transportation route in the regions it flows through.
It rises in the Adamawa Massif of northern Cameroon, from where it flows west, through the town of Garoua, then into Nigeria and through Yola, Ibi and Makurdi before entering the Niger at Lokoja.
The river's major tributary is the Mayo-Kebbi, which during floods connects it with the Logone River, part of the Lake Chad system.
At the heart of the contrived intra-party conflict is the perfidious attempt by that regime in Abuja and his perverse determination to use local surrogates in his revenge mission against those perceived as having opposed his evil third term scheme.
The Benue people and the Tiv in particular are yet to recover from the barbaric and criminal military invasion the Aso Rock tyrant ordered against them in 2001 and which resulted in the massacre of innocent civilians, not to mention the scorched earth destruction of entire villages and communities.
Benue will face the Obasanjo menace squarely, with the ultimate concern being the defense of the overarching interests of the citizenry whose support must be mustered to confront the scourge.
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