By Archibong Jeremiah Comrade Cosmos Okiri a native of Ukwutia village in Utugwang North ward of Obudu, and an aspirant for the Obudu constituency ticket in the Cross River State House of Assembly, CRSHA. In this interview with CrossRiverWatch, he says that the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP needs to inject more fresh blood into
By Aplefe Ojong As part of the deliberate and concerted plans by the member representing Obubra/Etung Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives and Chairman, House of Reps Committee on Appropriation, Hon. John Owan Enoh to replace Senator Ndoma Egba by becoming the Cross River Central Senator come 2015, a meeting has been fixed for
By Elijah Ugani Former Cross River State Commissioner for Works, and 2015 Governorship aspirant, Mr. Legor Idagbo has said that his seven point agenda will consolidate the gains of the eight years of Imoke’s administration. Mr. Legor Idagbo who spoke to CrossRiverWatch after the PDP northern caucus screening exercise for governorship aspirants at the Ogoja
By Jeremiah Archibong The Cross River State Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Ntufam John Okon, has warned that the Party leadership in the state will disqualify any aspirant who refuses to play according to the rules. Ntufam Okon who handed down the warning at the state party’s secretariat Calabar, at the occasion of
By Elijah Ugani The Cross River State northern senatorial district caucus leader, Chief Linus Okum (Ada Bekwara) has disclosed that they may convene again to see how the north as a family will cut down the number of governorship aspirants ahead of 2015 guber race to a single candidate. Ada Bekwara made this known while
By Sylvia Etta Nine members of Governor Liyel Imoke’s Executive Council who are vying for various elective political offices in the forth coming general elections have resigned their appointments from the state executive council CrossRiverWatch can report. Available information from the office of the SSG names the nine former State Executive members as Secretary to
By Sylvia Etta Over sixty members of the Odukpani Caucus of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party PDP, led by the Leader of the caucus, Professor Ndem Ayara, on Sunday night drilled aspirants for the Cross River State government house, Peregrino House in 2015. Aspirants started arriving the Channels View Hotel venue of the meeting as
By Mudiaga Afe The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Cross River State, Mr. Mike Igini, on Wednesday decried the non-collection of 261,416 Permanent Voters Cards by registered voters across the various local government areas of the state. He said it was worrisome that despite the huge publicity and mobilization carried out by the commission in conjunction