By CrossRiverWatch admin The national leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC has risen in stout defence of an earlier rejection to join the unity government proposed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP government of Senator Ben Ayade in Cross River state. The party said the ruling PDP government was deficient in so many ways
By Aplefe Ojong The decision of the Governor of Cross River State, Senator Ben Ayade to allocate 30 appointments to members of the opposition parties in the state has attracted mixed reactions from a cross section of the indigenes of the state and other political parties. While the major opposition party, the All Progressives Congress,
By CrossRiverWatch admin The leadership of All Progressive Congress (APC) South South zone says it is confident that the zone would be adequately represented in various appointments made by President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. Mr. Hilliard Eta, National Vice Chairman of APC, South South said this on Saturday in Calabar at the end of a post-election
I was busy attending to state’s matters of pressing concern, when my attention was drawn to an article written by one of these social media touts who, like a few others, is looking for recognition in Governor Ayade’s government. The article, being so flawed in grammar and content, is intended to make a mockery of
The hype that occasioned the emergence of the Professor, Senator, and now Governor of Cross River State has died down. What looks like scepticism has replaced enthusiasm. Online media propagandists of the governor have since withered like dead leaves carried by wind down the bottom of the mother tree. Their impatience to hit the ground
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade yesterday announced he was abolishing all forms of taxation for low income earners in the state. Ayade who disclosed this during a media parley in Calabar, said a bill to this effect is before the state House of Assembly. The governor maintained that the poor
by crossriverwatch admin Ntufam Ekpo Okon, the former PDP Chairman in Cross River State was over the weekend manhandled by youths from Akamkpa Ward in Odukpani local Government area following disagreement between the elders and youths over who to pick as the flag bearer for the PDP in the forth coming local government election scheduled
by crossriverwatch admin Peregrino Hall, the official residence of Senator Liyel Imoke, the Cross River State governor was on Saturday night turned into a boxing arena as top politicians from Obubra in the central senatorial district of the state who could not contain one another while arguing who to select as the PDP candidate for