The Governor of Cross River
State, Professor Ben Ayade has denied reports that he was set to dump the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Ayade in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Christian Ita maintained that his relationship with the President was based on governance.
Ayade was in the delegation of
President Muhammadu Buhari to two high-level meetings in Lome, Republic of Togo.
This also fuelled speculations
that he is being wooed by the APC in the south-east and south-south regions
ahead of the 2019 election.
But Ita dismissed the reports.
“There is absolutely no truth to
the report that Governor Ayade is defecting to the APC. It is fake news; it is
the fertile imagination of the author of the report,” he said.
“The governor has a relationship
with the president based on governance. So there is a need for us as a people
to understand that governance is different from politics.
“Ayade is a committed PDP
member.”
Ayade was elected governor on the
platform of the PDP in the 2015 governorship election.
On July 25, some APC youths in
the state stormed the national secretariat of the party in Abuja to protest
against the alleged plan of his defection.
They reportedly said the governor
wanted to join the ruling party because “he is a man whose party has roundly
and unprecedentedly rejected him for his very poor and abysmal performance”.
Earlier in the week, Abdulmumin
Jibrin, a member of the house of reps, said four PDP governors were working for
APC.
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