By Our Correspondent The gubernatorial candidate of the Labor Party in Cross River State, Fidelis Ugbo has assured his supporters that he will not decamp to the All Progressives Congress but instead will form a formidable ally with the party as a progressive. Ugbo stated this in his Obanlikwu country home while addressing his supporters
By CrossRiverWatch admin All Progressives Congress, APC in Cross River state has condemned what it called ‘’the high scale violence’’ perpetrated by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP against its members during Saturday’s Governorship and House of Assembly elections in the state. This is as the South South Zonal Secretariat of the party has alleged compromise
By CrossRiverWatch admin The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ben Ayade is obviously coasting home to victory as results of yesterday’s governorship election being announced at the collation center indicates. Results collated from nine local governments including Ogoja, Bekwara, Bakassi, Akpabuyo, Calabar South, Calabar Municipality, Ikom, Obanlikwu gives the PDP candidate a
By Aplefe Ojong An embarrassing and extremely suffocating level of voter apathy characterized yesterday’s Governorship and House of Assembly elections in Cross River State. Some of the Presiding Officers and Collation Officers who spoke with CrossRiverWatch, but pleaded anonymity for security reasons revealed that there was an extremely low turn out of voters in this
By CrossRiverWatch admin Yesterday during the state governorship and State House of Assembly elections, two boxes containing thumb printed ballot papers, results sheets and other materials in Alomonye polling unit number 006 in Nyanya ward and in polling unit number 007 in Ibiaragidi-Iye in Ibiaragidi ward all of Bekwarra Local Government Area, Cross River State
By Aplefe Ojong One person has been confirmed dead this morning at Mkpani, the home town of the former governor of Cross River State, Chief Clement D. Ebri. CrossRiverWatch authoritatively gathered that the victim, one Roland was shot death by security personnel while attempting to scale the walls of Chief Clement Ebri’s house where election
A strong, vibrant and robust democracy anywhere in the world is a product of so many factors including a virile system of checks and balances among the three arms of government, an electoral system that pays zero tolerance to elections malpractices/violence, but gives premium to free, fair and credible elections, thereby recognizing and sustaining the
