By Elijah Ugani
The member representing Ogoja State Constituency and Majority Leader of the 9th Cross River State House of Assembly, Hon Peter Odey has distributed 20 motorcycles to party faithfuls as part of his support for the statewide APC Aggressive Evangelism.
Speaking during the distribution of the motorcycles at Ogoja Local Government Secretariat, Hon Peter Odey maintained that “I have decided to support the advocacy and membership drive of the Cross River State APC by providing these motorcycles to enable you go into the nooks and crannies of Ogoja. We ordered for 40 motorcycles, 20 have been delivered, others are on the way”
Odey warned that the motorcycles were not meant for commercial cyclist purpose, urged beneficiaries to ensure that there are used for the purpose it is meant. The motorcycles were distributed to the ten ward Chairmen and one other member from each ward.
He disclosed that women will get their own share of the support on the 24th December, 2021.
Presenting the motorcycles to the ward Chairmen, the State Party Chairman Elect, Alphonsus Eba Esq, thanked the Chairman of Ogoja LGA, Hon Emmanuel Ishabor and congratulated the Leader of Cross River State House of Assembly, Hon Peter Odinga for his benevolence and magnanimity to aid the aggressive evangelism by the APC.
Eba maintained that “It is indeed a happy moment of for us. There is no local government area in northern senatorial district with the brand like Ogoja.
We are here to do an evangelism. We christened our executive a ‘Digital Executive’. Our ward Chairmen needs to carry these bikes to the nooks and crannies of the state.
“It was at this venue that we gathered and decided that senator Barr Stephen Odey should be our senator.
“Some criminals gathered and connived with the governor of another state who has no value for money and armtwisted the Judiciary, which I am a part of, and stole our mandate through the backdoor, and this has caused us another pain of going through a bye election.
“For us, we will not fight them. We have to go for a revenge through the ballot in the forth coming Ogoja/Yala federal constituency bye election. We will retire them. We will go into the election as a united family”
Referring to the opposition PDP, Eba stated that “Tell them that what they are referring to as empowerment, it is APC federal government project, they are bringing it back to our people, let them not give it back to the people and claim that it is their empowerment.
That is what they ought to do. Hon Peter Odey is taking from the much God has blessed him to come and do this for our people. It is not awarded by SDGs. This is what we call empowerment, if they don’t know the dictionary meaning of empowerment, tell them to come let me teach them the way I have been teaching them.
“My dear people of Ogoja, we are gathered and we must be united. That is why we are in the field to show that when we are united, nobody can break us. This is the strength in unity and this is the message we have come to pass.
“Today we have five persons at every polling unit, the money you collect constantly, #30,000.00 per month across the 196 wards, across the 3221 polling units in Cross River State runs into about one billion naira per month. That is the action of governor Ayade intellectual creativity in conjunction with local government Chairmen. Today, over 27,000 persons have been taken off the road.
“They gave us food on the table, we are proud of the food on the table. They behave like touts, they go to eat from the scrums from the Port Harcourt table. They want to colonize us and we are saying no. It must be Cross River State first. We do not have any other leader in Cross River State other than Sen Prof Ben Ayade. You must stand behind me, we must stand with him.
“APC is the new order, we have socketed to the center, this is the only language you want to hear. This is the party that has for the first time as a ruling party given Ogoja and Yala son a state Chairman.
“Please and please retire them in the bye election by going to the field, vote for the candidate that will come up from this party. We will sit down as a family and take that decision. We will go to the field as a united force”
Speaking on behalf of the beneficiaries, the Chairman, Ogoja Urban Ward 1, Mr Paul Agbeje thanked Hon Peter Odey for the initiative to aid the APC Aggressive Evangelism mantra and promised to put to good use the motorcycle for the benefit not the party. He used the opportunity to thank Hon Peter Odey and wished him success in all his political endeavors.
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