US-Based Nigerians Rally Support For Proff Steve Torkuma Ugba.

US-based Nigerians who are passionate about the fate of the country will no longer be subject to the intimidation of "do or die" Nigerian politicians, ACN's gubernatorial candidate in Benue State at the recently concluded elections, Steve Ugbah has said.
"Some of our political colleagues in Nigeria think those of us abroad are so comfortable there that we cannot take the heat here (ie of the Nigerian political scene,) this is our opportunity to tell them that our destiny is in Nigeria also," Ugbah said in a telephone interview with Empowered Newswire during the week.
According to him, Nigerians in the US and elsewhere in the Diaspora, "are not just complaining for its sake, we are coming home to put our money where our mouths are and to provide solutions."
Ugbah, 57, a university Professor in California for 27 years was declared loser in the Benue State guber polls but he is challenging the results at the Election Petitions Tribunal.
More significantly however his case and cause are now ammunitions in the mobilization of a number of US-based Nigerian professionals, many of whom are actively supporting him and advocating his cause here in America after he was arrested recently on the orders of the Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswan for alleged public incitement.
US-based Nigerians and groups here like the defunct US-PRONACO chairman, Dr. Baba Adam, Ernest Ezeocha, the  Executive Director of the Nigeria Forum in California, Ugbah's wife, herself a Nigerian professor here, Stevina Evuleocha, his sister Rosemary Akhidenor are among several others here known to be actively involved in mobilizing the US media, US government law makers, officials and other US-based Nigerians to rise in defense of Ugbah after he was arrested.
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