THE CHURCH MADE A MISTAKE ORDAINING HYACINTH ALIA
…A GOVERNOR OF DENIAL AND DECEPTION
The Catholic Church made a catastrophic error ordaining Hyacinth Alia as a priest. Thankfully, the Church corrected that error long before he plunged Benue into its current state of moral decay and administrative collapse. Alia was suspended twice, not out of malice, but because his character was fundamentally incompatible with the sacred values of priesthood.
Before we go on, you need to know that Fulani elites gave Alia N7 billion to support his 2023 campaign, and the same people have reassured him that as far as he continues to protect their interests in the state, they will support him with more money and voodoo for hypnotizing the people in 2027.
Benue State is now dealing with the consequences of a man whose record, temperament, and methods were never suited for priesthood in the first place, and certainly not for the leadership of a state.
Let nobody mince words:
Hyacinth Alia is NOT returning to the Catholic Church.
Not after this abysmal tenure. Not after any attempted image-repair. Not after any choreographed act of remorse. The Church has shut that door with iron bolts.
If Alia still dreams of rejoining the priesthood, he might as well dream of sprouting wings and flying, because both will happen on the same day.
For years, Benue people were presented with a carefully packaged image: a supposed priest, a healer, a man of God. But behind that image, behind the cassock used as a political prop, was a personality defined by sadism, disregard for discipline, and a pattern of behaviour that even the Church could no longer ignore.
The truth is this:
Alia didn’t reinvent himself in politics. He simply amplified the tendencies that once got him suspended.
Today, Benue State is saddled with a governor whose idea of leadership begins and ends with denial and deception. A governor who refuses to engage with suffering, who flips reality upside down, and who believes that repeating a falsehood loudly enough will turn it into truth.
But the most insulting blow came two days ago, when Governor Alia shamelessly told the world that there is no Christian genocide in Benue State. NO mass graves? NO violence? NO suffering?
This is not merely misinformation; this is a violent erasure of the pain of entire communities. It is a slap in the face of the families burying loved ones. It is an assault on displaced persons who have become strangers in their own land. People who must now seek permission from their invaders (Fulani) before burying their loved ones. Alia’s conduct is a direct insult to the clergy who have presided over too many funerals.
A governor who cannot acknowledge the wounds of his own people does not deserve to speak for them.
A leader who downplays their deaths does not deserve their trust. A public official who rewrites their suffering does not deserve their mandate.
Governor Alia has become the official narrator of falsehood. He is negatively loud, arrogantly confident, and utterly disconnected from the lived realities of his people.
Alia’s government runs not on truth, not on transparency, not on compassion, but on propaganda thick enough to choke the entire state.
Benue is not cursed!
Benue is not helpless.
Benue is simply under the weight of a governor who mistakes denial for strategy and believes that gaslighting is governance.
Benue people will no longer sit quietly while their governor rewrites their trauma for political convenience.
Our people will not be intimidated by government theatrics. They will not be silenced by media spin.
They will not be bullied into accepting a version of reality that exists only in Governor Alia’s imagination.
Our stand is not personal; it is principled. Our anger is not emotional; it is justified.
Our voice is not loud by accident; it is loud because the suffering in Benue is louder.
Governor Alia may choose denial. He may choose propaganda. He may choose theatrics and deception. But WE choose the truth. And the truth will outlast every falsehood that comes out of Government House, Makurdi.
Benue will not forget.
Benue will not forgive this betrayal by Alia!
And Benue will not allow its people to be erased by the words of one conman!
Signed:
Dennis Agema
President
Network for Transparent Governance (NTG)
