The National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole has blamed former President Olusegun Obasanjo for presiding over the ceding of the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon which has resulted into hardships being experienced by the people of Bakassi.
“Former President Obasanjo ceded Bakassi to Cameroon because he wanted to get a Nobel Peace Prize. But unfortunately for him, such prizes are not given to traitors. He ceded Bakassi and made residents in that area to become refugees in their homeland.”
Oshiomhole spoke today, Wednesday at the presidential campaign rally inside the U.J Esuene Stadium in Calabar, capital of Cross River State, where President Muhammadu Buhari received into the All Progressives Congress (APC), former National Financial Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bolaji Anani and his supporters.
The APC chairman asked the people in the state to vote for President Buhari in the February 16 election to enable him to continue with the good work he has been doing to revive the nation’s economy and develop the country to the standard required.
Receiving the defectors, President Buhari said that his administration would continue to fight corruption and improve the country’s economy even as he promised to support farmers across the country with soft loans to help them improve their productivity.
“I want to assure you that after I have been sworn in, I will visit Cross River again to interact with the people.”
The APC governorship candidate in the state, Senator John Owan-Enoh, assured President Buhari of bloc votes from Cross River, adding that the broom revolution that started in 2015 would emerge victorious in 2019.
John Ochalla, Acting Chairman of APC in the state, told the President that the massive turn out at the stadium showed the strength of the APC in the state and their willingness to vote for him at the polls.
“Mr. President, I wish to bring to your notice that investors have been chased away in Cross River over multiple taxations by the PDP government.
“The Super Highway and Deep Sea Port projects are a monumental failure as both are still at groundbreaking level with nothing to show for three years after.”
John Ochalla said that the desire for a change of leadership in the state was loud, adding that APC will sweep Cross River in 2019.
Source: NAN.
