by crossriverwatch admin A Calabar High Court presided over by Honorable Justice Michael Edem yesterday ruled that only candidates sponsored by the Peoples Progressive Alliance, PPA and the National Conscience Party, NCP respectively were as at 17th June 2013 eligible to contest the Local Government Elections in Yakurr, Obudu and Obanliku Local Government Councils. In
by crossriverwatch admin The member representing Abi/Yakkur in the Federal House of Representatives, Honorable Bassey Eko Ewa, has said that the real event that happened on Saturday last week was not what was reported but attention was concentrated on a minor incident that happened between him and the Chief of Staff to Governor Imoke. He
by crossriverwatch admin Dr. Matthias Oko Offoboche, Gynaecologist, Politician, PDP Chieftain, Elder statesman and former Deputy Governor of Cross River State speaks on the position of Cross River North Senatorial District in respect of the governorship of the state in 2015 in this interview with newsmen in Calabar. Offoboche, who was Chairman of the Committee
by crossriverwatch admin Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma Egba SAN has replied Rights Activist and APC Chieftain, Barrister Okoi Obono Obla who accused Egba of turning down his appeal and refusing to help him get a brief because he is in opposition. Barrister Obono Obla in an article posted recently on the Cross River State Coalition
by crossriverwatch admin A political group with the name, Ikom for Liyel Imoke Movement in a meeting held on the 25th of October, 2013 at the Ikom Government House came out with a communiqué declaring that the selection of a governor for the state in 2015 is the “sole prerogative”, of the incumbent governor, Senator
by crossriverwatch admin Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River State today said that he has given his best and all to Cross River State in the past six years that he has been governor. Governor Imoke who will be presenting the 2014 budget to the State House of Assembly today, took over from Donald Duke
There appears to be a widening political gulf between the Cross River State Governor, Liyel Imoke, and the Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba (SAN), over who succeeds the former on the one hand, and who represents the Central Senatorial District of the state after the general elections in 2015. Though Imoke would not be seeking election
by crossriverwatch admin The initial pomp and pageantry that attended the empowerment program organized by Hon. Bassey Ewa, a member of the House of Representatives representing Abi/Yakurr Federal Constituency, for his constituents in Ugep, Yakurr Local Government turned to a fiasco when an argument between Hon. Ewa and the Chief of Staff to Governor Imoke,