by 13 October 2024
Barrister Alphonous Ogar Eba,JP
State Chairman
All Progressives Congress Cross River State Chapter
State Secretariat
Murtala Mohammed Highway
Calabar,Cross River State
Nigeria
Dear Mr Chairman,
Rejection of Appointment as Member of a Purported Senatorial Elders Advisory Council (Central) Yakurr Local Government Area.
My attention has been drawn to a press release signed by the State Chairman and State Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Cross River State dated 12 October 2024, where my name was listed No 8 as a member of the said Council to represent Ijiman Ward in Yakurr Local Government Area.
I take a serious exception to my purported appointment, which is calculated to diminish my status as one of the foundation members of the APC at the National, Senatorial, Local Government Area, and Ward levels of the Party since 2013.
It is also pertinent to state that I was the pioneer National Legal Adviser, Member of the Board of Trustees (June 2009 to 31 December, 2010), Deputy National Secretary, Secretary (4 January 2011 to 31 July 2013), and Secretary/Member of the Merger Commitee of the defunct Congress For Progressives Change (CPC) between February 2013 to July 2013.
Most importantly, I was the Co-Secretary of the Joint Inter Party Merger Committee that negotiated the formation of the APC in 2013.
Finally, I raised an objection several days ago to the constitutionality of the purported Senatorial Elder Advisory Council (Central). For the avoidance of any doubt, I boldly submit that the said Senatorial Elders Advisory Council (Central) is an organ or structure unknown to the APC Constitution (2013) (as amended). I, therefore, reject and decline membership of the purported Senatorial Elders Advisory Council (Council) and the Yakurr Local Government Area Caucus of the APC.
Yours sincerely
Obol Okoi Obono-Obla
C.C
His Excellency
Senator Bassey Edet Otu
Governor
Cross River State of Nigeria
Governor’s Office
Hope Waddel Avenue
Calabar,
Cross River State
Mr Patrick Asuquo
State Secretary
All Progressives Congress Cross River State Chapter
State Secretariat
Murtala Mohammed Highway
Calabar,Cross River State
Nigeria
