Benue State Government will confer a posthumous honour on Major Gideon Gwaza Orkar on Saturday.
Addressing newsmen after the executive council meeting on Tuesday, in Makurdi, Governor Samuel Ortom, who spoke through his Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Mr. Michael Inalegwu, said that a street would be named after Orkar in Makurdi to immortalise him.
Ortom said that events had proven that Orkar was right in all his assertions “though when Orkar was talking, nobody took him seriously. But now, everything he said is coming to pass”.
Orkar was one of the masterminds of the April 22, 1990 coup d’etat that sought to remove five states from Nigeria during the General Ibrahim Babangida regime.
