The Sun
From Judex Okoro, Calabar
Cross River PDP Renaissance Group, has taken a swipe at Governor Ben Ayade’s continued absence from
Southern Governor’s Forum meeting and his tacit support for open grazing of cows.
The group also frowns at alleged plot by Ayade-led administration to sell off over forty government-owned assets including the garment factory, the cocoa processing plant and Obudu International Airport allegedly to its cronies and proxies in the name of privatization.
The group in a statement made available to newsmen shortly after its meeting held in Calabar on Friday, and signed by Rt Hon Efa Esua, representing Calabar Municipality in the State House of Assembly and Comrade Asu Okang, the immediate past commissioner for information and orientation, and different other key stakeholders of the party, decried the frequent oversees trip by the governor, which according to them has no direct bearing on the economy of the state in terms of attracting direct foreign investment to the state.
They described as unfortunate the desperate moves by government to silence the voice of opposition in the state as seen in the stoppage of statutory allowances of PDP law makers in the House of Assembly and pension allowances of former governors and the Deputies as well as continued security threats to members of the opposition Party.
