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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