Oyegun to Receive Ndoma-Egba, Ebri, as C’River Denies APC UJ Esuene Stadium

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Oyegun to Receive Ndoma-Egba, Ebri, Others, as C’River Denies APC UJ Esuene Stadium



There are indications that the Cross River State Government has denied the All Progressives Congress (APC) the use of the UJ. Esuene Stadium in Calabar for a mega rally to received defectors from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party (LP) to the ruling party in the country.

Yesterday, the state secretary of the APC who doubles as the chairman of the planning committee of the rally, Mr. Victor Ebong, had issued a statement indicating that the UJ. Esuene Stadium will no longer be used.

The announcement read: “The National Working Committee (NWC) of our great party led by the National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, will be receiving new members of the party in the state on Saturday, February 13, 2016, at the U.J.Esuene Stadium, Calabar at 10a.m.

The new members include His Excellency Chief Clement D. Ebri, former Governor of Cross River State; Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, former Senate Leader, Sen Bassey Otu; Ambassador Soni Abang, Prince Goddy Jedy Agba, Hon Venatius Ikem, Rt. Hon Paul Adah, Ntufam Fidelis Ugbo, Dr. Alex Egbona, Dr. Sandy Onor, Sony Etta, Hon Ernest Irek, Chief & Mrs Johnson Ebokpo, Dr Mathew Achigbe, and many others.
The state Working Committee will be honoured by your presence at the occasion which is intended to launch the party for electoral victory in the state.

But today, the party made a u-turn and announced a new venue , following the alleged refusal of the state government to grant it the use of the stadium.
Sources in the APC secretariat informed the media that the party had applied to Governor Ben Ayade for the use of the stadium, but until Thursday evening there was no official response from the governor.
One of the party officials who refused to be quoted, stated that the leadership of the APC in the state received a letter from one of the plain cloth security agencies telling them to put off the rally entirely.
“We have a letter from the DSS urging us to put off the rally because the PDP is also staging a rally in Calabar on that day,” the source said.

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