Fellow Cross Riverians, with great humility, I stand before you today to accept the enormous responsibility you have given to me and my brother, Peter Odey, to serve. In the same breath, let me welcome all of you to this moment of history. We give God all the glory and adoration for leading us successfully…
Today, Monday, May 29th, 2023, in large parts of Nigeria, new governors will be sworn-in for a four-year tenure in office. In Cross River State, preparations for today’s inauguration have reached fever pitch and it is only a matter time before Bassey Edet Otu, takes the reins as the 18th governor of Cross River State….
Insider sources in Cross River State have informed www.calitown.com that attempts by several local council chairmen in the state to seek a second term of three years in office, have gone up in smoke after stakeholders within the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state decided that the swearing-in of CRS governor-elect, Bassey Edet…
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Says event marks the end of the election process of this year. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has issued a Certificate of Return to Bassey Edet Otu, governor-elect of Cross River State as well as to the 25 elected members of the Cross River State House of Assembly, CRSHA. Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Cross…
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Bassey Edet Otu, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Cross River State, according to results so far released by the Returning Officer for Cross River State, Prof Teddy Adias, on behalf of INEC, won the gubernatorial election with 258,619 votes, secured in 15 LGAs, over PDP’s Sandy Onor, who polled 179,636 votes…
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While Bassey Edet Otu awaits him at the senatorial polls for the CR Southern Senatorial seat, it appears the PDP candidate for the position, Gershom Bassey, has shot himself in the foot with the arrests all through last week of 23, mostly PDP faithfuls, in circumstances believed to have been tied more to the forthcoming…
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