Benue State House of Assembly has amended the 2007 Local Government, LG, Act and approved a three-year tenure for LG elected officials. The amendment of the 2007 LG law took place on Friday, a few hours before local government elections slated for Saturday. The house, presided over by the Speaker, Hyacinth Dajoh, unanimously agreed that the LG law be amended after clause-to-clause consideration of the bill. It, therefore, expunged the existing two-year tenure, which was in the former law in sections 13(2) and 27(3), and substituted it with three-year tenure. Ruling after the legislative proces…