Former Special Adviser to Benue Governor on foreign investment, Alex Addingi, engages in promotion of wealth creation through crop production in palm plantation.

Addingi, who also engage in rice farming, yam and other notable crops production in Buruku federal constituency, Benue State, called on Buruku people to adopt planting of palm trees and plantain sucker as alternative sources of earnings to boost wealth and palm oil production.

The former special adviser, who recently resigned to contest for the House of Representatives, at the NUJ Secretariat in Makurdi, said he hopes to Plant 65 thousand palm trees this year with hope of creating wealth and removing its constituent from poverty to become self reliant.

He gave 1,000 palm tree seedlings and plantain suckers to the NUJ, to plant at least one each, to assist members. He disclosed that he is training 5,000 youths in Buruku on digital skills and helping to provide science-based scholarship. He described Buruku as backward, given years of underdevelopment of the constituency.

Comrade Bemdoo Ugber, the state chairman of NUJ, commending the initiative, appealed to politicians to campaign on ideas and not over heat the state.