I’m Cross River APC Guber Candidate, Owan-Enoh Insists

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Cross River Stat, Senator John Owan-Enoh has urged the electorate in the State to ignore the antics of the Minister for Niger Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Usani, as well as those of the State governor, Senator Ben Ayade and his cohort who are allegedly misinforming the people that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disqualified all APC candidates in the state in the build-up to the general elections.

According to Owan-Enoh, the duo of Usani and Ayade are gripped with fear over his growing popularity and acceptability across the State as APC governorship candidate who is set to cause an upset in the rescheduled upcoming March 9 polls.

A press statement signed by spokesman for his campaign organisation, Dan Amor, noted that the attention of OwanEnoh’s Campaign Organisation was aware of sponsored scroll message on some national television stations to the effect that an Appeal Court in Calabar has insisted that Pastor Usani U. Usani remained the APC candidate in the state.

“There was no such thing as Usani being the APC candidate in Cross River State”.

“The script is a fabrication by Usani and Governor Benedict Ayade to distract the APC in the State due to the looming presence of Owan Enoh, the party’s one and only governorship candidate in Cross River State”.

According to him, “Usani has never been declared a candidate in Cross River State as far as the current political transition is concerned. Usani is a spoiler employed by Ayade to distract the APC and its candidates in the state in order for him to have a smooth sail to a second term despite his obvious lack of performance and failure to deliver the dividends of democracy to the people.”

The statement further noted that “Usani knows that he is not a candidate in this year’s governorship election; that is why he has not resigned his appointment as a minister a few weeks to the election, despite the constitutional provision that any appointee running an election must resign his/ her appointment 30 days before the election.”

He said Ayade of the PDP has co-opted Usani “to play the role of a spoiler so that if he (Ayade) wins, he would nominate Usani for another ministerial appointment as well as position him to succeed him in 2023,” adding that “the substance of the case is very clear.

“In the count down to the party’s primaries last year, the National Working Committee of the APC sent a delegation of seven members to conduct Direct Primaries for the party in Cross River State as stipulated in its constitution.”

“Usani refused to participate in that exercise. Rather, he went and formed a faction of the party which conducted an illegal primary and declared himself a winner. But the primary conducted by the National Working Committee of the party had already produced Owan-Enoh as the candidate of the party in Cross River State”.

“Usani went and procured judgment from the Bwari Abuja High Court seeking the declaration of the Etim John faction to which he belongs as the authentic party exco in the state.