The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Cross River State, Professor Sandy Onor, says the state chapter of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) is working for his party through bad governance.
He said the choice before the people is very clear and the electorate are determined to go a different direction come 2023.
Professor Onor, who disclosed this in Ikom during an interview, said the people of the state are in the dark as far as good governance is concerned.
“On the readiness of the PDP, everyone can see that the APC is doing our work for us, because of their bad governance our citizens are resolved to go a different direction.
“If you see what has been happening with the PDP before now, the kind of governance we have been offering, the dividends we have to show and place it in juxtaposition with the stagnancy we have experienced, you will see that the choice is very clear and the people of the state are very willing to demonstrate that with their votes.
“The civil servants are not happy, local government staff are despondent, the ordinary citizens are in a very dark and bad place.
“Our state is enveloped in darkness as far as good governance is concerned and in history we say darkness is not a subject of history.
“So, we are very determined, on our own; we are taking nothing for granted, we are working very hard and very convinced that we will win the elections,”Professor Onor said.
He criticised the ruling party in the state for not working hard to win the elections but rather depending on rigging, saying such plans will fail.
He also faulted the rumoured plan to abort the use of BIVAS for the elections, describing proponents as electoral criminals.
“From what we see, instead of the APC working hard, they are thinking of rigging, it will not come to that because we will not allow them rig. Our victory is inevitable by the grace of God and the will of our people.
“Those canvassing for BIVAS to be dropped are criminals, electoral criminals who should hide their faces in shame.
“BIVAS has come to stay and we are very happy with INEC because INEC has insisted from my knowledge of the position on INEC by the Senate.
“All kinds of pressures were put on INEC to drop the BIVAS which they have rejected. We are going to be BIVAS-compliant and that is where our confidence is hinged,” he said.
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