Sen Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe, the Senator representing Northern Senatorial District of Cross River State in the National Assembly, has called on Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, to leave the State out of his current battle with Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State.
According to the lawmaker, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Cross River was at peace and was made formidable by Governor Ben Ayade’s decision to decamp to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
Jarigbe stated this in a statement he signed and made available to journalists on Monday in Calabar, while reacting to Obaseki’s claim that Wike has destroyed the PDP in Rivers State.
He said: “If the governor is referring to the defection of Governor Ayade, as the ‘destruction’ of the PDP in Cross River State, then we totally disagree with him. It is rather seen as good riddance to bad rubbish,”
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“At some point, Governor Ayade became an albatross in our party, and when he left, there was jubilation. In fact, if Ayade left the PDP because of Wike, a fellow Governor, then it is testamentary to how clearly handicapped Ayade was in the context of being influential and committed to the Party.
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“While Governor Wike supports PDP States that do not have Governors, financially, physically and otherwise, some governors are complacent, laid back and not forthcoming with any support for the party in States, like ours,”
