By Gabriel Ewepu, Vanguard Newspaper Youth under the auspices of Northern Cross River Youth Coalition, NCRYC, Friday, threw weight behind Hon. Jarigbe Agom, ahead of the Cross River Northern Senatorial bye-election in Cross River State. This was made known in a statement signed by the National Coordinator, NCRYC, Michael Emaluji, while reeling out impact and
By Jonathan Ugbal The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released names of political parties and their nominated candidates for bye-elections in Cross River, Katsina, Bauchi and Kwara States scheduled for November 17, 2018. The list was released in a statement signed by INEC National Commissioner, and Chairman, Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye on
By Jonathan Ugbal: Government House Correspondent, Ushang Ewa and Itiunbe Atunka The Cross River State Government on Thursday accused two gubernatorial aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Messrs Venatius Ikem and Paul Adah of sponsoring the thugs that were arrested a few days to the House of Assembly bye-election in Obudu. The Attorney General
The good people of Obudu lost the member representing the Obudu State Constituency in the Cross River State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Stephen Ukpukpen, to the cold hands of death in the second quarter of 2018. Stephen Ukpukpen was laid to rest on Saturday, July 28th 2017 in his village, Bedia in Obudu Local
By Archibong Jeremiah The Cross River State Commissioner for Youths and Sports, Mr. Asu Okang was on Saturday August 11, walked out of the venue of the announcement of the Obudu bye-election results. Asu Okang was walked out by a mobile Police Officer on the directive of the State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Dr. Frankland
By Jonathan Ugbal The winner of the August 11, 2018 house of assembly bye-election in Obudu local government area of northern Cross River State, Mrs. Abbey Ukpukpen has broken silence on her ambition pledging to give her constituents the “representation they deserve.” This was contained in a statement signed by her and issued Tuesday in
By Jeremiah Archibong, Jonathan Ugbal and David Nsa The candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the concluded Obudu state assembly bye-election, Mrs. Abbey Ukpukpen has emerged winner having scored 12,712 votes despite not voting. The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Bendebel Ishamali polled 4,345 votes to emerge runner up while
By Jeremiah Archibong, Jonathan Ugbal, Ushang Ewa and Itiunbe Atunka Despite the presence of over 1,000 police officers and over 5 dozen personnel of different security agencies, at least two have been injured in the Obudu house of assembly bye-election with the results of one polling unit cancelled so far due to hijack of electoral