By crossriverwatch admin The Cross River State Youth Leader of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Nathaniel Effiom Otu has decried the rising poverty rate in the state. Comrade Otu, while addressing a delegation of APC youths from across the state who paid him a solidarity visit in Calabar, during the week observed that
By Laureta Akpan Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Cross River State, Ntufam John Okon has described Ndoma-Egba’s petition to the national leadership of the party calling for the dissolution of the state executive as mere grandstanding. According to the state PDP chairman, the leadership of the party in the state will not sit
By Jacob Ajom The Conference of Cross River State Professionals has frowned at the reported disqualification of some governorship aspirants seeking nomination for the 2015 governorship election under the platform of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in Cross River State by a caucuses allegedly controlled by the Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke. In a statement issued
By Laureta Akpan Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma Egba yesterday petitioned the national leadership of the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP asking for the immediate dissolution of the Cross River State executive and called on the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party to take over all other processes relating to the outstanding aspects of the
By Nigerian Pilot There are worrying signals that three key governors supporting President Goodluck administration, Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State; Governor of Enugu State, Sullivan Chime and Liyel Imoke of Cross River State may dump the ruling party. Their grouse followed unresolved political crisis in their states by the party’s national secretariat. The Governor
By Sylvia Etta The crisis rocking the Cross River State chapter of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP took a shoddier turn yesterday with the sealing of the state secretariat of the party along the Murtala Mohammed Highway in Calabar by stern looking armed security operatives from the Quick Intervention Squad, QIS. The sealing of
By Aplefe Ojong One of the gubernatorial aspirants under the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River State, Mr. Goddy Jedy Agba has expressed very strong displeasure over the sale of one of the pride of the state, the Cultural Centre by the Senator Liyel Imoke led administration. Jedy Agba who bared
By Laureta Akpan Fresh indications emerged on Thursday that pressure is being mounted on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Working Committee (NWC) to cancel the results of ward congresses held in Cross River last week Saturday. Sources confirmed that the intensity of the crisis in Cross River apparently informed the pressure being mounted by