During the March 18 Governorship and House of Assembly elections in Cross River State, pockets of violence were recorded in six Local Government Areas, this report by Patrick Obia documents them. The Governorship and House of Assembly elections in Cross River State was a battle of the titans, between the All Progressive Congress Sen. Bassey
By Adefemola Akintade, Peoples Gazette The Independent National Electoral Commission has postponed the governorship and State Assembly elections till March 18. The exercise was previously scheduled to hold on March 11, but INEC, citing a logistics crisis stemming from BVAS configuration and transportation, said the election could not hold again as scheduled following a meeting of its
By Ogar Monday Listen To The Report A Federal High Court in Abuja has postponed judgment in a suit filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, asking it to remove Governor Ben Ayade from office. The court had fixed judgment on the case before Justice Taiwo in Court 7 for Friday, 25th March 2022, but
By News Agency of Nigeria, NAN The Special Adviser on Sports and Cinematography to Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State, Prince Godswill Edward, has indicated interest to contest the 2023 governorship election under the All Progressives Congress. Edward, who spoke in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Calabar, said his
By Maxwell Effiong Code 888, a Cross River political group has sued that zoning be continued in the State, suggesting that, come 2023 the Governorship seat be left for the Southern Senatorial District. The group in a media parley in Calabar made the suggestion where it’s Director General, Maurice Nkong in his address to declare
By Patrick Obia The Court of Appeal sitting in Calabar has reaffirmed the victory of Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State in the 2019 election after the petition tribunal declared him the winner . The court also awarded N 600, 000 as punitive cost against the former Minister for Niger Delta, Usani Usani, who
By Efa Sunday Chief Edem Duke, former Minister for Culture, Tourism and Orientation has joined the governorship race to unseat Senator Ben Ayade of Cross River State. Declaring over the weekend at the APC State Secretariat, Duke maintained that he’s not impressed with the current happenings in the State and wants to liberate Cross Riverians.
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The task of State building from the very earliest times, has had the misfortune of always being hijacked by slimmy opportunists. From the time when statehood itself was still very nascent, philosophers began to propound variegated ways for majority of the people in society to always put such inordinate ambition in check.