Reports gathered by www.calitown.com show that PDP candidate, Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe, has clinched the Ogoja/Yala Federal Constituency seat, North of Cross River State. He is believed to have garnered 45,792 votes, while his closest opponent, Akpang Obi Odu scooped up a distant 6,539 votes. The APC candidate scored 3,324 votes and the Independent Democrats candidate,…
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Clement Oshaka, the Bekwarra Local Government PDP caucus leader has commended voters in the area for turning out en masse to vote and give support to the candidature of President Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP House of Representatives candidate for the Obudu/Bekwarra/Obanliku Federal Constituency, Legor Idagbo. Oshaka who spoke with www.calitown.com on the heels of…
While voter turnout in today’s Presidential and National Assembly elections has been very high across the length and breadth of Cross River State, www.calitown.com can reveal that after the initial problems encountered with the card reader in various polling units within the state, accreditation and voting went ahead as follows with early trickling results indicating…
With just hours to unarguably Nigeria’s most anticipated elections, the Labour Party in CRS says it has evidence to show “…that some senior INEC officers in CRS are collaborating with the PDP to rig Saturday’s elections…”. The plan the party says will involve starting “accreditation late in all Labour Party strongholds, using scanned result sheets…
While the Labour Party and ruling PDP in Cross River State almost engaged each other in a war of words, over the recent kidnap of LP House of Reps candidate for Calabar South/Bakassi/Akpabuyo Federal Constituency, Dominic Oqua Edem, a competent security source in CRS has informed www.calitown.com that “Dominic’s kidnap was criminally motivated and had…
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People suspected to be thieves on Sunday night, raided the state secretariat of the Labour Party in Cross River State, making away with sensitive party documents and the plasma television in the office of the party chairman, www.calitown.com can report. It was clear that the thieves scaled the perimetre fence and entered the secretariat, located…