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Chuks Okocha traces the history and eventual defection of Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River to the All Progressives Congress Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade. last week Thursday finally dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC). He formally declared for the ruling party at the Cross River State Executive Council Chamber, Governor’s Office in Calabar after a two-hour meeting with seven APC governors, led by the party’s interim Chairman and Governo...

By Chuks Okocha The Peoples Democratic Party’s Governors’ Forum yesterday moved to Calabar, the Cross River State capital, to stop the planned defection of Governor Ben Ayade and 19 elected local government chairmen and 193 councillors in the state, THISDAY has learnt. The governors were led by their Chairman and Governor of Sokoto State, Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal. The 19 local government chairmen and 193 councillors had in April stormed the national secretariat of the PDP threatening t...

By Chuks Okocha The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has mobilised Governors Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State and Godwin Obaseki of Edo State and the party’s reconciliation committee headed by a former President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, to persuade the Governor of Cross River State, Prof. Ben Ayade, to rethink plans to defect from the main opposition party to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). THISDAY learnt that the move followed the t...