February 22, (THEWILL) – The Cross River state chairman of the All Progressives Congress says the opposition People’s Democratic Party broke the fence of the Calabar Sports Club to stage a rally in the state against police advise.
State chairman of the party, Alphonsus Ogar Eba made this known in Calabar while reacting to the allegation that the government attempted to stop the rally.
He alleged that the Rivers state governor was behind this and advised him against crossing the line of political decency.
He said the state will no longer condone this as the state is not an extension of Rivers state.
“Nyesome Wike has been a constant medlesome interloper and today we want to say that enough is enough.
“He was here on Saturday to incite violence in Cross River state but it took the maturity of our leader and governor Professor Ben Ayade to a avert violence.
“What he has set to do over time is to import the political cannibalism from Rivers state politics into Cross River state.
“Cross Riverians will no longer continue to allow him to cross the boundary of the line of political decency,” he said.
He said the youths in the state have been liberated and will not give space for such crossing any longer.
“The Ayade administration has liberated over one million youths and the youths want to tell him that he will have no space to cross any longer.
“We are a peace loving people and very decent and civilised and lead by two very prominent professors.
“We will not get so low to the level of a governor that is almost like a motor park tout.
“We want the world to know that the governor with his level of exposure, education, and political capital in him cannot reduce himself to the level of a man who the poverty of intellectual capacity,” he said.
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