Fmr Vice Chairman, serving Ward Chairman dumps PDP for APC in Cross River
January 18, 2019

By Peter Akpak, Ogoja

A former Vice chairman of Bekwarra local government area of Cross River State, Hon. Christopher Odey and a serving ward chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the same LGA have defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

The duo on Thursday and no less than 19 big wigs of the PDP with a large crowd of their supporters decamped to the APC, when Sen. John Owan Enoh, the governorship candidate of the party took his campaign train to Bekwarra where he was received by a sea of crowd.

Receiving the decampees, the state chairman, Mr. Odey Ochicha said the gubernatorial candidate of the party enjoined them to do more work in APC than they did for the PDP so as to secure victory for the party.

While campaigning for support from the mammoth crowd, Owan-Enoh told them that turning out in their numbers to receive him was a great statement, which shows that they have realised the mistakes they made in 2015 by voting the incumbent governor into office.

He told the people that Ayade has abandoned them and the Obudu-Abouchiche road. That he knows Ayade is watching is campaigns and in a few days will want to deceive them by deploying tractors into the road because he knows the elections are close.

He said, “Today you’ve made a statement, and that statement is that as a state we made a mistake in 2015 by voting Ayade into office. And you don’t need me to show you the indications of that mistake, because it is very evident in the state of affairs of our dear state.

“Ayade has abandoned the road between Abouchiche and Obudu. In the next few days he will bring tractors into the road in order to deceive people. All He knows to do is to deceive the people.”

“Ayade is watching my campaign and he is very afraid. Very soon Ayade will come to campaign because he usually waits for me to start a thing before he does too. When he comes here he will come with power.

“He will come to show you power, he will come with big cars and soldiers and all the paraphernalia of government. Is that one power? The real power is when he comes here to show you what he has done in four years.

“Even I who is not governor, I have visited more Northern villages than he who is from the Northern district of the state and he is the seating governor. In the last three days I have been sleeping in the North but Ayade has never slept in the North before and he will never. We didn’t elect an emperor in 2015 who cares only about himself.

“I am the one that will come and provide life in that government house. The first thing I will do is to conduct local government elections. If governor Ayade meant well, If he had a sincere heart, he would have.”

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