{"id":3412,"date":"2019-01-27T18:20:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T18:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=3412"},"modified":"2019-01-27T18:20:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T18:20:12","slug":"cross-river-apc-scribe-1000-others-defect-to-pdp-campaign-for-ayade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/cross-river-apc-scribe-1000-others-defect-to-pdp-campaign-for-ayade","title":{"rendered":"Cross River APC scribe, 1000 others defect to PDP, campaign for Ayade"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mass exodus of members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Cross River state continued at the weekend when the assistant secretary of the party, Mr. Sunday Omang, led over one thousand of his supporters to defect to the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) during Governor Ben Ayade\u2019s campaign rally in Bekwarra local government area of the state.<\/p>\n

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Until his defection, Omang was also a member of President Muhammadu Buhari Campaign organization in the state.<\/p>\n

Addressing thousands of cheering PDP supporters at the rally, the erstwhile APC scribe, flanked by his co-defectors said no sensible Cross Riverian will remain in the APC after seeing Governor Ayade\u2019s massive industrialization drive and infrastructural development of the state just within three and half years in office.<\/p>\n

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Omang said:\u201d my decision to join the PDP was never influenced in anyway by anybody. Rather, I took the decision alongside my supporters to join PDP because of the good works Governor Ayade is doing to transform Cross River.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to him, \u201cwe are very impressed with development under Ayade, hence our decision to join the PDP train in support of our northern brother to move the state forward. And l want to assure you that we would work for your victory and we appeal, we should be fully integrated and accepted in the party.\u201d
\nAlso at the rally, the northern zone of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) declared their unalloyed support for the governor in his re-election bid.<\/p>\n

They predicated their support for Ayade in office on his achievements including the ongoing dualization of the 147km mfom-okuku-Obudu dual carriage highway which cuts across the five local government areas of the north.<\/p>\n

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