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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