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  • C’River Guber Polls: PDP Raises Alarm On Plans By Police To Compromise Elections

    C’River Guber Polls: PDP Raises Alarm On Plans By Police To Compromise Elections

    By Admin

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River has raised alarm on plans by the Police Command to compromise the Governorship election in the state on Saturday.

    This is contained in a statement by the Publicity Secretary of the Party in Cross River, Mr Mike Ojisi.

    He said that the plans were perfected on Wednesday evening when the Commissioner in charge of elections in the state, Garba Aliyu in company of other officers met with Gov. Ben Ayade.

    Ojisi said that information available to the party leadership said Ayade had offered the Commissioner a mount watering amount to execute the plans.

    He disclosed that part of the plan is to create crisis in their strong holds and also used the boys that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has assembled to disenfranchised the people in selected parts of the state.

    He further stated that a number of chieftains of the party have been penciled down for arrest between Thursday and Friday as part of plan to keep them out of circulation until after the elections.

    According to him, “We have it on good authority that arrangement have been concluded to use the Police to compromise the governorship election in the state.

    “The plans to disenfranchise many Cross Riverians, cause chaos in our strong hold, put some of our leaders out of circulation with Police playing a critical role of providing cover for all these unwholesome activities were perfected this evening in a meeting with the governor.

    “Aside the Commissioner, others in the meeting were Garba Aliyu, CP Umar Madaki, in charge of Central, and CP Stanley Ude, in charge of Southern Cross River.

    “Others are: DCP Hayatu Shaff, DCP Aboki Danjuma, DCP Uche Adaku, and ACP Yusuf Doki.

    “They arrived Calabar today and were picked up at the Airport by Asuquo Ekpenyong Jr, Senator-Elect, and drove them straigth to Government House where they met with Ayade.”

    Meanwhile, the spokesperson of the Command, SP Irene Ugbo has debunked such plans, but however confirmed the CP meeting.

    She noted that the meeting was not exclusively for the Police but with other security agencies for the election.

    “The meeting is basically to strategize on the election in the area of security”

  • If I Put My Candidate In Power, I Am Covered? BY AGBA JALINGO

    If I Put My Candidate In Power, I Am Covered? BY AGBA JALINGO

    If I Put My Candidate In Power, I Am Covered?

    This feeling has broken the hearts of several former governors. A litany of them who used their enormous power of incumbency to install successors in the hope that their tracks will be covered, have only had to bite their fingers down the line and face the embarrassing repudiation of such prior commitments, once there is a change of guard.

    While we have excellent examples of Deputy Governors in Nigeria who maintained their comportment and cool until the end of the tenures of their principals, we cannot say the same thing with most successors who were foisted on the people by out going governors. Like the perpetual crow of the rooster, their day of rancour is only a few miles down the road.

    Let me begin from Lagos, where Fashola was planted by Tinubu. The relationship later became so bitter that it was the generality of Lagosians that rose to Fashola’s defense and kept him in power. Though fences were later mended, what happened between the duo is a lesson in successor politics. What also later happened to Fashola’s successor, Governor Ambode, is public knowledge.

    When Orji Uzor Kalu planted his former bone man, Theordore Orji in Abia, he thought he had it all settled. It wasn’t up to six month before Theordore went for the jugular of his former boss. We know how it ended.

    The story of Ganduje and Kwankwaso also quickly comes to mind. How one was like eczema on the other’s skin. So close were they that some persons even swore they will never suffer a broken lid. The moment the guards changed, things also changed for the worse and till date, the lid between them is still broken.

    Ahmed Sani Yerima of Kebbi, worked so hard to plant Mahmuda Aliyu Shinkafi, as his successor. After taking over, his former man-friday, Shinkafi tormented Yerima so much that he worked double to ensure Shinkafi didn’t return for second term.

    Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom is having his own fair share of the successor politics lessons from Emmanuel Udom. Akpabio personally brought Udom and nursed him into Governorship. That relationship has completely soured.

    Or is it Aregbesola of Osun State? He even fought with Asiwaju, his political benefactor in order to plant Oyetola. It wasn’t up to the first hundred days in office before the war between the two began. I’m not sure it’s over yet.

    Go to Edo State and also verify from Oshiomhole what he has seen in the hands of Obaseki. If you don’t have access to Oshio, please ask Google and see Obaseki’s side of the story and you will understand.

    Ibrahim Dankwambo, of Gombe who was practically installed by Senator Danjuma Goje, fell out with his benefactor barely months after taking over power. The duo at a point couldn’t see face to face.

    A former governor of Borno State, Ali-Modu Sheriff, had a major disagreement with his anointed successor Kashim Shettima, who is now the VP-elect and at a point, the former governor couldn’t even enter the State.

    Attahiru Bafarawa of Sokoto State who also handed over to his anointed successor, Wamakko, had to drag his successor to court only a few months later after accusations of corruption between the two started flying here and there.

    Peter Obi left office confident that he did a good job by planting an anointed successor, Willie Obiano, whom Obi personally brought from the banking sector to make Governor. How did it end with the two of them?

    Between Sam Egwu of Ebonyi and his successor, Martin Elechi, the story wasn’t different, as well as between Isah Yuguda of Bauchi and his successor.

    While in Nasarawa State, former Governor, Tanko Al-Makura, had to set up a panel to probe his predecessor, Senator Abdullahi Adamu.

    Even when a father, who was former Governor planted his own son as Governor, in Kwara State, it wasn’t long before the two Sarakis fought to a finish and father frustrated the son from winning a second term.

    Back home in Cross River, we know what happened between Duke and Imoke. We also are fully aware of what is ongoing between Imoke and his anointed successor, Ayade. And with this trajectory, we can also predict with exactitude, what will happen between Ayade and whoever he will hand over to, whether that person be his anointed successor, Prince Otu or his old friend, Sandy Onor.

    Yours sincerely,
    Citizen Agba Jalingo.

  • Like Sandy Onor, Sons Of The Black Men BY SANDRA MICHAEL

    Like Sandy Onor, Sons Of The Black Men BY SANDRA MICHAEL

    Like Sandy Onor, Songs of the black men

    As bright as dawn
    as precious as Shawn

    So thick is his hair
    so lovely is his care

    So gorgeous is his skin without blisters
    he glitters without filters
    He is the black man he has evolved

    Yellow, white, or chocolate
    there is nothing nicely than a black man
    with deep black eyes
    nose so pointed and wise

    I know a black man
    who would clasp our hands when danger shows up

    Let the obidients and otudients
    sing him praises
    the mighty reclaimer is here
    the star of the ejagham kingdom
    the harmonizer ready to reclaim
    ready to reclaim our stolen mandate
    he is the people’s champion

    When you look at my face
    tell him that I’m visible when it matters
    oh ye black men
    your woman adores you
    your people acknowledge you
    let nothing in you rest
    until you reclaim the mandate

    Let the dundrun drum be displayed
    without dismay and delay
    nations are about to come to his rising!

    Yeah he’s strong
    he’s structured

    He’s resilient
    but he can’t accomplish it unaided

    I tell you
    a lot of goods come out from the ebony soul
    black is an identity

    By Sandra Micheal ✍️

     

  • Peter Obi Endorsement Of Sandy Onor And The Issuing Of Threats To Igbo Community In Cross River State By The APC BY UMEZULIKE DESMOND-CRUZ

    Peter Obi Endorsement Of Sandy Onor And The Issuing Of Threats To Igbo Community In Cross River State By The APC BY UMEZULIKE DESMOND-CRUZ

    PETER OBI ENDORSEMENT OF SANDY ONOR AND THE ISSUING OF THREAT TO THE IGBO COMMUNITY IN CROSS RIVER STATE BY THE APC

    Understandably, the endorsement of Senator Sandy Ojang Onor, the Gubernatorial candidate of the PDP in Cross River State, by Mr Peter Obi, dealt a traumatizing and deafening blow on the APC in Cross River State. While I heartily sympathize with them and in the spirit of sportsmanship, acknowledge their right to react to the issue of Obi’s endorsement of Senator Sandy Ojang, I honestly feel it is sickeningly insulting for the APC to issue threats to the Igbo Community in Cross River State, just because Mr. Peter Obi endorsed Senator Sandy Ojang Onor.

    I read with utter dismay and grave concern a publication attributed to one of the Spokesperson of the APC in Cross River State, wherein, he flagrantly accused Mr. Peter Obi and his people–the igbos– of trying to reintroduce what he referred to as “internal colonialism” and vowed that his Party will do everything to stop Mr. Peter Obi and “his people”. Firstly, let me acknowledge the fact that it is the constitutional right of Mr. Peter Obi to endorse any Gubernatorial candidate, and in this case, if there is any Political Party that has the right to react offensively to the endorsement, it should be the Labour Party in Cross River State, and not the APC. I mean, we have over 14 Political Parties in Cross River State fielding Gubernatorial Candidates, why is the APC the only party whose feathers are ruffled by this endorsement? Why are they trying so hard to incite the people of the State against the Igbo community in Cross River? Why are they making unnecessary reference to the bitter issues of Civil War and the pre-colonial era?

    More worrisome is the fact that Peter Obi’s endorsement of Senator Sandy Ojang Onor, has no ethnic coloration, as Sandy himself is an Ejagham Man from Etung Local Government and married to an Ejagham woman from same Etung Local Government Area. Sandy’s mother, who is from Akamkpa is also Ejagham and not Igbo. I am pretty sure that, if you trace the genealogy of Senator Sandy Ojang Onor, at least, to the 4th generation, you may likely not find any ancestral link with the Igbos. And same goes to his Deputy Governorship Candidate, who is proudly an Efik Princess, from a reputable Royal family. So, on what basis is the APC trying to whip up ethnocentric sentiment against the Igbos in Cross River State, due to Mr. Peter Obi endorsement of Senator Sandy?

    I am an Igbo man from Cross River State–proudly and unapologetically so– and I speak on the basis of Self–preservation and morality, not Politics. The APC in Cross River State must as a matter of utmost importance, stop the fanning of these smoldering embers of hatred against the Igbos in Cross River State. The Gubernatorial candidate of the APC must call to order, some of his overzealous media handlers, lest they set the entire state on fire. I am an Igbo man and it is my inalienable right to support whosoever I deem fit to govern our State. Enough of the threats!

    ©Umezulike Desmond-cruz

  • A Harvest Of Endorsements For Sandy Onor As Saturday 18 Beckons BY DOMINIC KIDZU

    A Harvest Of Endorsements For Sandy Onor As Saturday 18 Beckons BY DOMINIC KIDZU

    A HARVEST OF ENDORSEMENTS FOR SANDY ONOR AS SATURDAY 18 BECKONS

    BY DOMINIC KIDZU

    Saturday this week is going to be an unforgettable day for Cross River State as the people troop out in their numbers to cast their vote for the kind of tomorrow they want. Already, political, religious, socio-cultural and commercial interest groups have began to indicate clearly the choices they have made and the direction of their votes.

    For Senator Sandy Onor it has been a harvest of endorsements from very influential people and groups who have chosen him over and above the APC candidate. The battle cry from all who have pledged to help to crown him king has been the search for a clean break from the nightmare of the APC administration which they have disavowed as evil and retrogressive.

    They all seem to agree that a vote for Prince Otu will translate to foisting an Ayade dynasty in Cross River State through the backdoor since it was Ben Ayade’s consumptive junior brother, Frank Ayade, who single handedly chose Prince Otu as candidate and has continued to fund his campaign from the proceeds of state capture in the last eight years. Apart from Frank Ayade, huge amounts of money are also said to have been removed from the local government funds for the Ayade-Continuity-Project which they are prosecuting as a do-or-die affair.

    The Ibo union in Cross River state has endorsed Senator Sandy Onor, so has the Akwa Ibom union, two critical interest groups in the state. The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Cross River wing of National Youth Council of Nigeria, about ten other political parties, apart from the Labour Party and it’s vastly popular presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi and our quintessential former Governor, Mr Donald Duke.

    Only yesterday, ten candidates for the two seats in the House of Assembly from Calabar South, Prince Otu’s safe heaven, also joined the widely popular movement for Sandy Onor governorship. Various women groups and market associations have also adopted Senator Onor’s electrifying running mate, Emana Duke Amawhe and are rallying their members to work for her ticket.

    It is now very clear that the people have rejected the APC and what the party has come to represent under the mediocre leadership of Governor Ben Ayade who spent eight years supervising the deliberate and systemic destruction of everything the people were proud of about their dear state. Our rich forests, our tourism, our finances and all state institutions have been laid waste by a party and government that does not know when enough is actually enough.

    Now the die is cast and the people have made their choice. Even though the ruling party has continued to perfect their plans to manipulate election results by compromising INEC officials, disruption of the voting process and thuggery, the will of the people will triumph and their choices will still stand. As Donald Duke said in his endorsement video yesterday, “This Back-to-South slogan is simply just back to the status quo, back to the Ayades with one transitioning from Co-governor to the actual governor through his surrogate he single-handedly picked and has funded thus far”.

  • Nigerian Army Remain Neutral And Apolitical In The Discharge Of Its Constitutional Roles; Not Perturbed By Politically Motivated Fake News – FHQ

    Nigerian Army Remain Neutral And Apolitical In The Discharge Of Its Constitutional Roles; Not Perturbed By Politically Motivated Fake News – FHQ

    NIGERIAN ARMY REMAINS NEUTRAL AND APOLITICAL IN THE DISCHARGE OF ITS CONSTITUTIONAL ROLES; NOT PERTURBED BY POLITICALLY MOTIVATED FAKE NEWS

    The attention of the Nigerian Army has been drawn to a deliberately calculated smear campaign in the Social Media and other fora against some of our senior commanders and officers. While these unconscionable acts are inexplicable, the motivation behind them are not far-fetched. In the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly elections, officers and men of the Nigerian Army adopted a firm and resolute stance in providing security support for the Elections in a manner that effectively curbed and prevented ill-intentioned groups from violently interfering with the process. There is no doubt that Nigerians are excited at this responsible posture and the democratic opportunity it offered them. However, some interest groups, that were effectively prevented from hatching their nefarious plots to influence the course of the elections through violence, are understandably piqued by this assertiveness of the Nigerian Army.

    As constitutionally conceived, the Nigerian Army is nationalistic in its make-up and organization, drawing strengths from the diversities in our great nation. Our responsibilities, so far as elections are concerned, remain that of providing support to primary law enforcement and stakeholders in the Electioneering process towards ensuring that Nigerians are allowed to choose their leaders and representatives in a peaceful manner. This goal remains our only focus and one we would continue to pursue, mindful that the average citizen expects nothing less from his Army.

    The Army Headquarters wishes to assure the public that any misconduct against any of its personnel would be responsibly investigated and any subsequent substantiation would attract the appropriate disciplinary sanctions in accordance with established practices and extant laws. In the same vein, it should equally be appreciated that the character and reputation of a senior officer earned over 3 decades of meritorious service cannot be allowed to be destroyed by misguided elements through mere speculations. The resort to the sentiments of ethnic and religious colorations would not also diminish the Nigerian’s Army resolve to carry on its roles professionally.

    The Nigerian Army, therefore, urges all Nigerians to ignore the mischief being propagated by ill-intentioned individuals and groups, and continue to go about their civic responsibilities without any fear of molestation. We would continue to work with sister Services and other Security Agencies to meet all security-related expectations of citizens as enshrined in the laws of the Federation.

    ONYEMA NWACHUKWU
    Brigadier General
    Director Army Public Relations
    13 Mar 2023

  • Re: Ethnic Attack On The Effiks By The PDP Governorship Candidate In Cross River State, Can Cross River State Survive A Prof Sandy Leadership?

    Re: Ethnic Attack On The Effiks By The PDP Governorship Candidate In Cross River State, Can Cross River State Survive A Prof Sandy Leadership?

    RE: ETHNIC ATTACK ON THE EFIKS BY THE PDP GOVERNORSHIP CANDIDATE IN CROSS RIVER STATE, CAN CROSS RIVER STATE SURVIVE A PROF. SANDY LEADERSHIP?

    Our attention has been drawn to a write up with the above title written by one Ekpenyong Isaiah-isababa, who regards himself as Commander, Infantry Pen Battalion, and a video of Sen Sandy Onor, purported to have denigrated the Efiks, while responding to a question filed during an interactive session with the Efik Youths, under the auspices of the Progressive Southern Alliance.

    Ordinarily, we wouldn’t have bothered about responding to his fictitious claims and write up which is capable of creating ethnic bigotry, unrest, chaos and social malady.
    But for the purpose of putting the records straight and to strengthen the confidence reposed on our principal by both the Efiks and non-Efiks alike, as a build up to the governorship election that comes up few days from today, we make bold to state emphatically, that the allegation is false and has no correlation with what transpired during that interactive session.
    The claim is a complete misrepresentation, and a misinformation of the response offered by our principal, Sen Sandy Onor, on why the central always contest for the position of University of Calabar Vice Chancellorship and governorship positions with the south.

    Mr Ekpenyong Isaiah-Isababa probably was not in attendance during that said town hall meeting, else, he would have had a full knowledge of what transpired. A background check on the person of our principal and his contributions during his stay as the State Chairman of the National Centre Party and the enthronement of Mr Donald Duke, as governor of the state in 1999, on the basis of his competence, an Efik son against his Atam brother, clearly confirms his disposition to promote unity in the state.

    While touring the 18 local government areas of the state, our principal was very vocal about promoting our commonalities that unite us other than the contemplating ethnicity that divides us.

    The video in circulation on social media is an abridged video from the main video, with the malicious intent to dent the reputation of our principal, whose support and acceptance has become unwavering.
    The writer’s intention not to publish the complete video for Cross Riverians to watch and understand what really transpired, can only be best explained by him.

    For the records, the full video from which the purported anti-Efik video was extracted from, lasted for about 40-45 minutes and watching the video will give you full grasps of what Sen Sandy Onor said. We want to clarify that Sen Sandy Onor was only responding to a question “Why is the Central always opposing the South in the VC’ship elections and same thing transpired in the PDP primaries”, asked by a southern youth.

    Our principal listed names of Southerners who have been Vice Chancellors, and spoke in the context of the question, and so should not be quoted out of context that he tried to incite ethnic hate.

    We want to state unequivocally that at no time during that interactive session or any session that our principal made mention of the Efiks derogatorily or disrespectfully. Whoever claim so should provide such evidence.

    The attached edited video shows our principal responding to the question where he mentioned the former Vice Chancellors of the University of Calabar, from Southern Senatorial District numbering 4 and mentioned that only Profs Kelvin Etta and James Epoke had occupied the position from central senatorial district, before the current Vice Chancellor, Prof Florence Obi. Our principal wondered why, it must always be the south.

    We want to remind the public that when Donald Duke contested elections from the South, he was fully Supported by Sandy Onor, even though he had his own candidate in his then party from Atam, running for the same position. If Sen Sandy did not play ethnicity or was not anti-Efik then, is it now that he is on the ballot, campaigning in Efik land and looking for their votes that he will suddenly become an anti-Efik? If he is an anti-Efik as they claimed, he should not have chosen his deputy from amongst the Efiks.

    It is no longer news that Sen Sandy Onor has insisted that the BACKtoSOUTH, mantra as theorized and widely advocated by some persons, is not healthy for our state, and that Cross Riverians should interrogate his past records on the basis of competence and support him to be governor of the state.

    We call on the public to ignore the cheap blackmail against Sen Sandy Onor. If it were not a blackmail and a cheap way of trying to get sympathy for their candidate, they would have posted the full video of the said occasion. But why will they post when they know that Sen Sandy Onor is loved by the people including their own sons and daughters?

    Cross Riverians should please go about their normal electioneering businesses without fear because Sen Sandy Onor, has once supported the south to be Governor of Cross River State and will not turn around to be anti-Efik now. Sen Sandy has convinced Cross Riverians to vote for him based on his double barreled experiences both in the Executive and Legislative arms of government, which puts out his competence as shown in his previous positions of assignment and the projects facilitated as spread across the Central Senatorial District, during his stay in the senate.

    Let’s vote for a man that will not look us into the eyes and lie to us, someone with a clear vision for CRS, let’s vote Sen Prof Sandy Ojang Onor, let’s vote PDP, let’s vote the Umbrella, because CRS will truly survive and her lost glories returned, under the leadership of this seasoned administrator.

    Caterpillar Movement Media

  • RE: I Will Resign As Running Mate to Sandy Onor of PDP before 18th March

    RE: I Will Resign As Running Mate to Sandy Onor of PDP before 18th March

    RE: I Will Resign As Running Mate to Sandy Onor of PDP before 18th March

    Our attention has been drawn to a malicious and inciting post circulating on social media by agents of the All Progressives Congress, in an attempt to brandish a false narrative that the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate and his Deputy, Lady Emana Duke Ambrose-Amawhe are not on the same page. This could not be more untrue.

    Ordinarily, the person of Lady of Emana Duke Ambrose-Amawhe does not join issues with overzealous errand boys, who earn a living by spewing lies and unfounded falsehood, in a frail attempt to deliberately misinform the public and garner goodwill from unsuspecting electorates. However, it is pertinent that we state the facts clearly for the benefit of unsuspecting Cross Riverians.

    The said publication has no element of truth and is nothing but a figment of the writer’s own distorted imagination. For the avoidance of doubt, there has never been a time where Lady Emana Duke Ambrose-Amawhe has said privately or publicly that she will resign her position as running mate to the Governorship Candidate of the PDP. Senator Sandy Onor has nothing but love for the people of the South, and respects all his Southern alliances, especially due to the fact that he has a Southern matrilineal heritage.

    It is not a new thing in our political culture for failing political Parties to engage the services of spin-doctors and propagandists to sell lies to gullible members of the public, in an attempt to reignite the dying embers of a terminally ill Party.

    The electorates are wiser now, and their votes will count in the coming elections!

    Emana Media

  • That Fake Communique From The So Called Southern And Northern Leaders Of Thought

    That Fake Communique From The So Called Southern And Northern Leaders Of Thought

    THAT FAKE COMMUNIQUE FROM SO CALLED SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN LEADERS OF THOUGHT

    If not that in Nigerian politics one must respond to every barking dog, including the ones that are afflicted with rabies and canine influenza, there should have been no reason to ingratiate this flimsy piece of vomitus with this response that it does not by all means merit, in proper consideration of the substance and personages involved.

    But we must respond in other that innocent citizens of our dear state are saved the great peril of believing that the real man inside the mask is a member of the dancing troupe, not knowing that the fellow is merely a wayfarer that lost his bearing long before harmattan came and made his feet white and scaly. This response is therefore a social service to save the innocent from believing the guilty.

    To begin with, there was no meeting of Northern and Southern political leaders anywhere in the world on the 2nd of March, 2023, neither physical nor digital, nothing. No venue, no signatures, no truth. Secondly, there were no elected political office holders from the North mentioned at the fantom meeting. Not one! Just a continuation of the regime of lying and blindfolding that has crippled our dear state, misled our vibrant youth and made our corporate name a laughing stock throughout the federal republic.

    The people purported to have been at the imaginary meeting who are said to have signed the communique are quite frankly what one may safely describe as politically irrelevant as at today, even if you may admit that some of them may have held some kind of sway in time past, who unfortunately have detoriotated into the inelegant toga of food-on-the-table politicians.

    This assortment of have-beens, ethnic jingoists and ex-convicts clearly do not and cannot have the mandate of the people for whom they are posturing to speak. They are people who have condoned mediocrity and criminality in exchange for a mess of potage. For almost eight years they have watched the most brazen and dastardly attack on our commonality, our heritage and our common patrimony without so much of a righteous wimper or indignation. They represent no one in the South and certainly no one in the North. What they represent, to say the truth, is the length of their throats and the depth of their stomachs. It is the quest for more free food and unmerited patronage that spurs them on.

    We in the People’s Democratic Party are not surprised at their latest tantrums because we understand their fears. They have calculated correctly that the coming election will be different from the last one where they where allowed to rig freely without counter measures on the part of our party. They are also afrighted by the gale of adoptions by various interest groups including the PFN and 10 other parties who have seen that the candidate of the PDP is the only one with the vision, workplan and moral standing that can return Cross River State to the path of honour and prosperity.

    The Calabar-Ogoja-Accord has served its purpose and all three Senatorial Zones of the state have had their chance to lead the state or to ruin it. What we need today is a leader with the vision to heal Cross River from the rape and devastation it has endured and move it quickly forward to where it ought to be and not pieces of paper from food eaters who’s silent acquersence and duplicitous relationship with Ayade’s government helped the heist to pull through. Thank God the masses of our people know better and have chosen to cast their lot for Senator Sandy Ojang Onor come March 18,2023.

    CATERPILLAR MEDIA

  • C’River Guber Race: Coalition Of Opposition Political Parties Adopts, Collapse Structure For Sandy Onor

    C’River Guber Race: Coalition Of Opposition Political Parties Adopts, Collapse Structure For Sandy Onor

    By Admin

    Gale of defection has continued to gather momentum as the Coalition of Opposition Political Parties (COPPS) Cross River state chapter has formerly adopted and endorsed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Sen Sandy Onor, ahead of the governorship polls.

    The Coalition made up of not fewer than 10 political parties, said they decided to collapsed their structures in support of Onor’s candidacy after their extra-ordinary meeting held yesterday to review state of affairs.

    A few days back, Sen Sandy Onor had also secured the endorsement of notable religious, social-clutural and political groups including the Ejagham Stakeholders Forum, (ESHF), Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), and the Obi-Dients Movements.

    In a statement by the Chairman of COPPs, Mr Ntami Esege, on behalf of ten of them, it said that the decision to team up with the PDP candidate is to support the man with the right credentials to led the state to an enviable height.

    He noted that the decision to support the PDP candidate was arrived at, after a careful assessment of all the candidates with focus on competence, capacity and character

    He pointed out that Onor’s antecedent placed him above every other candidate for the job of leading the state for the next four years.

    “Conscious of what the State has gone through in the last eight years, we unanimously resolved to support a man with the right credentials to lead the Stale to an enviable height,” he stated.

    The political parties include ADC, ZLP, AA, APGA, APP, APM, NRM, ADP, BP and Accord.