From Judex Okoro, Calabar
The Cross River Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship candidate Sen. Sandy Onor, has stated that Governor Ben Ayade’s rush hour appointment four months to the hand over date is a gimmick to woo people into voting for APC.
Onor, who stated this in a chat with journalists at Ogoja ahead the official flag off of the PDP governorship campaign, said the party has done enough sensitisation to neutralise such antics believing that the people would decipher between lies and truth.
He described the recent multiple appointments of permanent secretaries and daily political appointments as scandalous employment and a flagrant disregard to established procedures, saying it is a contraption conceived to deceive our people and curry electoral favours.
“The people know the appointments are gimmicks, they are giving you an appointment four months to exit even as a lot of them have not been paid salaries. You have to be completely daft to imagine that you are being empowered, you are just being decieved.They are in the market place naked, their strategies are known and they will fail upon those strategies.
“That about 63 persons were appointed permanent secretaries within four months into exit from power show how bastardised our civil service has become. It is now a pure water affairs and an attempt to win at all cost. We can tell you that all these stragies will fail woefully , those strategies will not avail the APC victory.”
The Senator representing central senatorial district, maitained that the decision to start the journey of reclaiming our state, with a view of restoring our lost glory, was meant to replicate the steps taken by Nehemiah when he opted to rebuild the fallen walls of Jerusalem.
“Today in Cross River, we are plagued by a similar situation appalling in dimension and perspectives as every
facet of our state, ranging from sports, tourism, security, agric, health, civil service , local government councils, basic amenities are in chaotic state.
“A man we entrusted with the task of administering our common wealth for our collective benefits went haywire by hijacking our common patrimony for his paternal linage thereby afflicting us with sorrows, pains, hunger, kidnappings and unabated exploitations.
“I am seeking the mandate to become the next governor of our state because the situation we have found ourselves demands the a man driven by human passion, vision, focus, proven intellectual acumen, competence and experience, not a product of ethnic chauvinism meant to perpetuate the current shenanigans”
On the state of affairs within the PDP in Cross River State, Onor maintains that the party is united, vibrant, bubbling and poised to take back our state, adding that the northern senatorial district is PPD strong hold and the APC is trying to break it, but added that “the legitimacy that we are going to derive from our people would fire us to ensure that we reposition our state to real growth and development beyond the drama that we presently see.”