By CrossRiverWatch Admin At least nine person’s including a former member of the Cross River State House of Assembly, Tom Agi were injured after they were hit by bullets fired from guns used by security officials attached to the defection rally of Alphonsus Ogar Eba, the Director General of the Cross River State Bureau of
By Patrick Obia Weeks after Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River defected from the People’s Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress (APC), more of his aides have resigned declining to defect with him. The Governor has also sacked another commissioner, Francis Etta who refused to defect with him. Among those who have resigned recently
By Patrick Obia The Peoples Democratic party (PDP) has opined that it’ll leave no storm unturned to reclaim Cross River State from the All Progressives Congress (APC). It went on to assert that the guilty ones are always looking for where to hide but eventually gets smoked out. The PDP South-South Zonal Chairman, Mr. Dan
By Sentry, The Nation Very reliable sources in Calabar, the Cross River State capital said during the week that Governor Ben Ayade is not joking when he said he will turn the State into an All Progressives Congress (APC) fortress in the shortest time possible. “Ayade believes in his new party, the APC and he
By Olufemi Olaniyi, Punch The Peoples Democratic Party Chieftain, Former Governor Of Cross River State, And Former Minister Of Power And Steel, Senator Liyel Imoke, Fields Questions On The Political Developments In His State. Olufemi Olaniyi, Who Was There, Presents The Excerpts. You Are A Founding Member Of The PDP. You’Vve Also Held Various Key Positions In The
By News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) The Governor of Cross River State, Sen. Ben Ayade says he was attracted to the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) by the personal character of President Muhammadu Buhari.” Sen. Ayade recently defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the APC. “I moved into the APC because of my
For months, speculations of his defection to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, dominated discourse in the new and traditional media. Like others before him, Professor Ben Ayade, twice elected Governor of Cross River State on the platform of the PDP, played the ostrich, in a fashion that was
By News Agency of Nigeria, NAN Speaker of Cross River House of Assembly, Hon. Eteng Jonah Williams, has said that Governor Ben Ayade was not respected and honoured by the hierarchy of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which led to his defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Hon. Jonah-Williams, who spoke in an interview