With few months to the 2023 general elections and while other contestants are vigorously campaigning, Titus Tyoapine Uba, the Benue State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate and Speaker of Benue State House of Assembly is reportedly battling strange ailment.
Uba might have been hit by strange ailment. Dependable source revealed that is down with stroke.
Few days back, THE CONCLAVE reported the speculations doing the rounds in Benue State that PDP guber candidate was down with stroke, the report was denied by Mr Nathaniel Ikyur, the Chief Press Secretary to the State Governor, Dr Samuel Ortom.
He had in a chat with THE CONCLAVE, dismissed the report that Uba was down with stroke as a lie from the pit of hell.
Ikyur had stated that Uba was only down with acute malaria, accounting for his absence at party functions in recent times.
He had blamed the opposition for wishing him dead, laughed off their antics and accused them of playing God.
He was however confident that Uba would win next year’s governorship poll in Benue State.
While reacting to the development, the Campaign Management Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Benue State, said it was aware of “speculations in the public domain over the health condition of the governorship Candidate of the party for the 2023 elections, His Excellency, Engr. Titus Tyoapine Uba.”
A statement by Bemgba Iortyom, Deputy Director (Media & Publicity), State Campaign Management Committee (2023), the party’s campaign council has now confirmed that Uba is sick and on medical vacation.
Although the party did not disclose the kind of ailment plaguing the guber candidate, it said that Uba would be back soon.
A statement by Bemgba Iortyom, Deputy Director (Media & Publicity), State Campaign Management Committee (2023),
PDP, Benue State, said: “We acknowledge that such speculations may be from well wishers and supporters who are concerned over the absence of their favourite candidate from public functions over the past few weeks, and we are aware too that a segment of the opposition is seeking cheap political capital from the situation.
“To our loving and faithful supporters we make this clarification, which should blanch the ill motives of detractors, that Engr. Titus Uba is only away on medical vacation necessitated by natural causes which no human, no matter how high or lowly, is immune from.
“Engr Uba is not down with any ailment as being peddled in rumours by conscienceless elements among the opposition.
“We assure everyone that the Benue PDP Governorship Candidate is in good state of health and will soon be back at his duty station in the State Assembly and also on the campaign trail where he is miles ahead in the race for the top job at Benue People’s House, Makurdi come 2023.
“The Campaign Management Committee appreciates the existing pact between the good people of Benue State and PDP which has placed the party in favoured status at every election year since 1999, with only a brief exception in 2015.
“We trust that in 2023 Benue people will maintain their confidence in our great party with sweeping victory at the polls.”
There are however indications that the Benue PDP is hiding the true state of health of its guber candidate from the public.
Watchers of the political development in Benue contend that time will soon tell what exactly the problem with the PDP guber-candidate is.
