Nigerian Concord Newspaper
This is certainly not a good time for, Mr. Terrence Kuanum, the Special Adviser on Public Affairs to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation Senator George Akume over his past media attacks on the former governor while he held away as the president of the Benue Youth Forum, BYF.
A Frontline pressure group in Benue state,The Benue Agenda, TBA, today warned Kuanum to be mindful of how he uses his position as Akume’s media aide to attack Benue politicians since he himself had used his NGO, the Benue Youths Forum to run the SGF down on several occasions.
According to the group, Kaunum’s attacks on perceived enemies of Sir George Akume isn’t a sign that he loves the former governor but he is only constructing his own stomach infrastructure.
The Benue Agenda which spoke in a press statement signed by its president, Mr. James Agada this evening stated that the SGF should not think that the handshake from Kaunum is a sign of love. “Here is a man who had called the SGF many bad names in the past and he is now the one managing his image. That is professionally wrong” the group said.
“We recall how Terrence Kuanum had used his Benue Youth Forum to called the SGF several unprintable names in the past. He had addressed more than fifty press conferences where he exposed how Akume looted Benue State funds when he was governor between 1999 and 2007.
“We also want the public to be aware that Terrence Kuanum as the president of Benue Youth Forum had at many media interactions accused Akume of being the one funding Fulani herders to kill innocent Benue people in their thousands just to please the former president, Muhammadu Buhari whom he was then serving as a minister for Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs.
“Apart from this, Kuanum had written several Petitions to the EFCC, Transparency International, ICPC to report Senator George Akume of financial recklessness and supports for genocides in the past so we wonder how such man has suddenly become a saint in his eyes” the statement reads in parts.
The Benue Agenda urged Terrence Kuanum to apologize to the public on all the weighty allegations he had made against Senator George Akume in the past and admit that the allegations were false. He should also justify his reason for working with a man he had described as a thief, looter, killer and sponsor of armed bandits to kill innocent Benue people.