By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River State governor, Sen. Ben Ayade, has expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the Saturday Presidential and National Assembly elections, describing the exercise and turnout as both peaceful and massive. Ayade accompanied by his wife, Lynda, arrived Kakum town hall, Ipong polling unit, Obudu with registration area code CR/09 at
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Our correspondent has just reported that a team of INEC staff, observers and security personnel are stranded on the high sea on their way to Bakassi to conduct election. According to one of those stranded who pleads anonymity, “We have been stranded here for over four hours, we have called our headquarters
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Our Correspondents reports in the polling unit of the Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Prosecution, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla (Enang Ubi Compound), Ijiman-Ugep, with polling Unit Code 002 tension ensued when the INEC officials discovered that the voter register meant for the polling unit has been mistakenly exchanged for another. At
By CrossRiverWatch Admin An All Progressives Party agent has been reportedly stabbed and voting process disrupted in unit 11, Ibok, Imabana in Abi Local Government Area of Cross River State. More details is still coming in from our Correspondent in the area. In another development, a PDP part agent in ward 6, unit 5 Calabar
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Updates from our Correspondents across the 18 LGA’s of Cross River State indicate that election has begun in several polling units. In Calabar Municipality, voting is said to be ongoing in WAPI and NTA Polling units and in Calabar South, accreditation is still ongoing in some polling units as inec officials educate
By Margaret John As part of activities to effectively cover and report the 2019 general elections, CrossRiverWatch after dispatching reporters to the 18 LGA of Cross River State has opened its Election Situation Room (ESR). According to the Managing Editor, Mr. Archibong Jeremiah in a release also signed by the News Editor, Mr. Jonathan Ugbal
By Ololo Kelvin Ahead of tomorrow’s Presidential and National Assemblies elections, the Residential Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Cross River State Dr. Frankland Briyai has declared that INEC in the State is fully prepared to conduct free, fair, all inclusive, peaceful and credible election. Frankland said this in the Commission headquarters Calabar today while briefing members
It is no longer news that the electioneering process in this part of the world to elect leaders into political offices is heavily characterised by pre and post election violence. Majority of the perpetrators of this ugly trend are youths who are employed by politicians as tools to achieve their political ambitions. Violence according to