By CrossRiverWatch Admin Listen To The Report The wife of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, and the Office of the National Women’s Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, headed by Dr. Betta Edu, during the weekend hosted about 700 APC female aspirants for different offices in the
By Patrick Obia and Sylvia Akpan Listen To The Report Gubernatorial aspirants in the All Progressives Congress, APC and the People’s Democratic Party, PDP in Cross River State have reacted differently to the meetings that reportedly produced a consensus candidate and aspirant respectively. Former lawmaker, Senator Bassey Otu emerged as APC consensus candidate in a
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The All Progressives Congress in Cross River State, APC on Monday settled for Sen. Bassey Otu as its consensus governorship candidate for the February 2023 general elections barely 24 hours after the stakeholders of the southern senatorial district adopted Sir Arthur Jarvis Archibong as their consensus aspirant. Senator Otu represented the Cross
By Anietie Akpan, The Guardian Newspaper Listen To The Report Tension is mounting in the Cross River State All Progressives Congress (APC) over the party’s inability to choose aspirants for the 2023 governorship race. Also, its final caucus meeting scheduled for yesterday was canceled. Already, the Victor Ndoma-Egba (SAN)-led seven-man committee assigned to prune the
By Mary Bassey Listen To The Report Prof. Zana Akpagu, the immediate past Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calabar, UNICAL, has disassociated himself from the magnanimous act by some leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in the Northern Senatorial District of Cross River who purchased their party’s expression of interest and nomination forms
By Sylvia Akpan Listen To The Report Leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in the Northern Senatorial District of Cross River State have bought expression of interest and nomination forms for Hon. Martins Orim, Chief of Staff to Governor Ben Ayade to represent them in the Senate. The forms were also purchased for
By George Odok, News Agency of Nigeria Listen TO The Report Chairman of APC in Cross River State, Barr. Alphonsus Ogar Eba has inaugurated the ad hoc committee to prune the number of governorship aspirants from 16 to 4. The Committee is expected to recommend four aspirants, two from the Central and two from the
By Patrick Obia Listen To The Report “When I looked all around, only for me to realize that when the governor gave us the mandate to come and choose who will be the candidate of the party, I said I want to be very transparent and fair; I said I would not want the party