APC welcomes Ayade, urges other PDP Governors to follow footsteps
By Tom Okpe
The All Progressives Congress (APC) congratulates the Governor of Cross River State, Ben Ayade for his wise and timely decision to leave a dead party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for a living and thriving party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The ruling party commends the patriotic disposition and judgement that shaped Governor Ayade’s decision to join forces with President Muhammadu Buhari to build a better Nigeria as a member of the APC .
The APC is advising the other governors who are stranded in the sinking wreckage of the PDP to exercise the best option of abandoning that vessel.
APC in a press statement on Thursday, signed by its Caretaker ExtraOrdinary Convention Planning Committee, (CECPC) James Akpanudoedehe said the party is also urging members of the PDP in the National and State Houses of Assembly who are still hanging on to the sinking party to leave it for good and join the APC, which has been repositioned by the excellent leadership qualities of Governor Mai Mala Buni, the National Chairman of the party’s Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC).
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“With satisfaction that Governor Ayade has always been an APC man at heart given the humane and progressive manner in which he managed the affairs of the state, the people of Cross River State will now enjoy more developmental initiatives based on the APC values of delivering dividends of democracy designed to improve the wellbeing of the people.
“The APC observed that the total lack of internal democracy, which turned the PDP into a one-man show, has caused frustration and alienated its governors and legislators who are hardly consulted in the way the party is administered.
“The lack of democracy was exhibited by the PDP, which hurled invectives on Governor Ayade for dumping the party which has totally lost focus and purpose.
“As leader of the APC in Cross River State, we call on all our supporters, members and leaders to rally around, support and work with Governor Ayade to rebuild, reposition and strengthen the Party in Cross River State and by extension, the South-South and the country at large,” the secretary stressed.
