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Bye-Bye To Governance, Welcome To Politics BY AGBA JALINGO

2022 has arrived with the expected political declarations to take power to next year, and aspirants are all hitting the roads and combing the rusty clefts they abandoned in the last four years and oiling them for power grab. The people too are making a kill, feasting from the spoils of the quadrennial rendezvous of

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Time For The Cross River Voters To Zone Power To Who They Find Competent BY AGBA JALINGO

In your late twenties and thirties, you rose majestically to power in our State. Our State holds the record of having had the youngest of almost every public office at all levels in the country including notable ones like, youngest Senator ever in Nigeria (Senator Liyel Imoke @30). Youngest elected Governor ever in Nigeria (Donald

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RE: Dear Citizen Agba Jalingo, Where Are AAC Aspirants? BY INYALI PETER

This is a reply to “2023: Dear Citizen Agba Jalingo, Where Are AAC Aspirants? BY INYALI PETER“. We have our internal issues in court which we are dealing with at the national level that are affecting our ability to field candidates. INEC gives a token to the person the commission recognizes as National Chairman and

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2023: Dear Citizen Agba Jalingo, Where Are AAC Aspirants? BY INYALI PETER

All our discussions ahead of 2023 election in Cross River State have revolved around PDP and APC but in 2019, my big brother, Agba Jalingo told us that he was building AAC to become the major opposition party that’ll win some elections in 2023. How come till now, none of his party members has shown

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Cross River North – What We Can Do With Our Okadas BY AGBA JALINGO (PART 1&2)

Part One From media records, between January and December 2021 alone, over 1000 bikes have been shared in the five LGAs of Cross River North, mostly by politicians and a few individuals who have also adopted okada, as empowerment for the people. And more are still pouring in as we approach the 2023 general elections.

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Obudu/Obanliku/Bekwara Federal Constituency – Is The Future Hiding With A Knife? BY AGBA JALINGO

These two gentlemen, Peter Akpanke a.k.a. ‘Peter the Rock’ and Ela Ushie, are both angling to represent Obudu/Obanliku/Bekwarra Federal constituency of Cross River North in the House of Representatives come 2023. Not forgetting that the incumbent, Legor Idagbo, is still preparing to return. I am from Obudu. Whoever wins will be my representative and I

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As Politics Thickens, Governance Will Suffer BY AGBA JALINGO

In the winding months of 2014 into 2015, governor Imoke acquired the sobriquet, “sleeping governor” for his inability to evacuate the heaps of garbage that had overtaken several streets in Calabar. The entire government machinery was so distracted at the time that all the outcry landed on deaf ears. Election campaigns had started and Jedy

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N8 Billion Dangling Over My Head Like The Sword Of Damocles BY AGBA JALINGO

The Cross River State Commissioner for SDGs, Oliver Orok, has sued me and CrossRiverWatch, for N5 billion for allegedly calling him a “cultist” and/or gangster. “Cross River Micro-Finance Bank” has sued me and CrossRiverWatch, for libel and are asking for N2 billion Senator Florence Ita-Giwa wants to sue me and CrossRiverWatch, for N1 billion for

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