By CrossRiverWatch Admin Our correspondent has just reported that a team of INEC staff, observers and security personnel are stranded on the high sea on their way to Bakassi to conduct election. According to one of those stranded who pleads anonymity, “We have been stranded here for over four hours, we have called our headquarters
By CrossRiverWatch Admin As reported earlier, video has emerged of PDP agents dishing out N500 to those that have evidence of voting PDP at Ward 2 polling unit, Ikot Effiong Otop, St. Matthew Secondary School, Okoyong Odukpani L.G.A of Cross River State. In Okpok Ikpa community, also Odukpani the All Progressive Congress is giving out N1,
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Our Correspondents reports in the polling unit of the Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Prosecution, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla (Enang Ubi Compound), Ijiman-Ugep, with polling Unit Code 002 tension ensued when the INEC officials discovered that the voter register meant for the polling unit has been mistakenly exchanged for another. At
By CrossRiverWatch Admin An All Progressives Party agent has been reportedly stabbed and voting process disrupted in unit 11, Ibok, Imabana in Abi Local Government Area of Cross River State. More details is still coming in from our Correspondent in the area. In another development, a PDP part agent in ward 6, unit 5 Calabar
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Updates from our Correspondents across the 18 LGA’s of Cross River State indicate that election has begun in several polling units. In Calabar Municipality, voting is said to be ongoing in WAPI and NTA Polling units and in Calabar South, accreditation is still ongoing in some polling units as inec officials educate
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it does not recognise all the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates in Cross Rivers States for the rescheduled general elections. The Resident Electoral Commission in Cross River State, Dr. Frankland Briyai, declared the names of all candidates submitted by APC in the State would
By Our Reporter Information reaching our newsroom has it that materials meant for some LGAs in the South, Central and Northern parts of Cross River State are yet to leave for destination. According to our source “as we speak adhoc staff for Biase, Ikom and others are stranded here. Materials meant for Central and North
By Margaret John As part of activities to effectively cover and report the 2019 general elections, CrossRiverWatch after dispatching reporters to the 18 LGA of Cross River State has opened its Election Situation Room (ESR). According to the Managing Editor, Mr. Archibong Jeremiah in a release also signed by the News Editor, Mr. Jonathan Ugbal