Cross River State governor, Prof Ben Ayade, has said that there is no more opposition in the state, as the movement of “the three giants indicates that PDP is empty and opposition completely dead in the state”.
He also said the state does not belong to any single person or group but to the people adding that no one can determine the faith and destiny of the people, except God.
Ayade made the disclosure on Thursday during the defection of Mr. Bassey Ndem, and others from PDP to the All Progressives Congress in Calabar.
He said, ”Cross River state doesn’t belong to an individual but to the people and no group or group of persons can determine the faith and destiny of our people except God .
“The arrogance and sarcasm of prolonged stay in government comes with it’s negativistic impact .There is more opposition in Cross River state ,APC is in complete control.
“I come with a clinical truth; we came to a critical point where we needed to socket to the centre, anyone who thought otherwise apparently did not mean well for us.
“The three giants who have moved today have their roots in all parts of the state ,with intellect, grassroots support and more. Now we have them in APC; PDP is empty, nothing is left.
“Politics is a social engineering to bring value to your people and that exactly is what we stand for l. I stand for fairness ,equity and by that, you know what I mean,” Ayade said .
Speaking earlier, the Chairman of the APC in Cross River, Alphonsus Eba, said the “tsunamic” movement was an equivocal manifestation that God had answered their prayer, noting that they prayed that He take away all liabilities and replace them with political assets.
Eba said, ”When we entered office 60 days ago, we went to the mountain to pray that God should take away liabilities and desperate souls front our party and replace them with political assets.
“What we are experiencing today is an equivocal manifestation that our prayers have been answered by God.
“APC is on a voyage of splendour. We have given a fatal blow to oligarchy and we have sent the opposition into a state of oblivion,” Eba said.