Adah condemns Governor Ayade’s selective payment of salary in Cross River

A former member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Paul Adah, on Sunday condemned selective payment of salaries to civil and public servants including political and elective officers by the Cross River State Governor, Prof. Ben Ayade.

The former lawmaker, who was the immediate past state representative in the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, regretted the attitude of the Governor towards government’s workers in the state.

He said, “You can imagine that it is only few government workers that are being paid. There are others who are owed some months. This is a slight on them. On roads in the state, Adah said, “A lot of valuable roads have been destroyed since 2016 in the name of dualization with no real intention to complete them. Look at the Mfom-Okpoma-Obudu project; it’s long been abandoned since the governor did the ground breaking in October 2016.”

Adah, an indigene of Obudu in the northern senatorial district, pledged that he would run for a single term of four years if elected as governor so as to complete north eight years and return power to the southern district in line with the zoning formula of the state.

He lamented that the civil service in the state was grinding to a halt under leadership of Governor Ayade, adding that there was an urgent need to reposition the service to its proper shape.

“Let me officially inform you that I want to offer myself for service in 2019 as governor. The Ayade-led administration has destroyed the entire state and we need to come together for a rescue mission.

“As a man who spent over 20 years in the civil service, the condition of service I see today under Ayade is so disheartening. Civil servants are no longer sent out for trainings, offices that require impress to work don’t get anything again. This is why we need to rescue our people,

“For us, we believe in politics with real ethics not the fake ethics of deceits and lies we have now. Our interest is to do a four year single tenure where we will repair the colossal damages done to our dear state and set the road map for the development of the state for an APC governor from the south,” he said.

Adah, however, hosted seven chapter chairmen of the party from the southern senatorial district of the state where he declared his intention to contest the 2019 governorship election under the platform of the All Progressives Congress.