- Wants Guber, State Assembly Polls Postponed
Bassey Inyang in Calabar
A coalition of concerned members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Cross River State have called on the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, to redeployed its Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, from the state, Mr. Frankland Briyai, before the conduct of the March 9, governorship and state House of Assembly elections.
The group, the Coalition of APC Support Groups in Cross River State who made the call on Tuesday at a press conference at the campaign secretariat of the party’s governorship candidate, Senator John Owan-Enoh, said from information available to them, the REC was working hands-in-gloves with the state governor, Professor Ben Ayade, and the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Uguru Usani, who was suspended recently by the party for antiparty activities, to work against the interest of the party in…
