Sources within the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Cross River State have told calitown.com that the statement, “I don’t know who will be governor come 2015, but I know who will not be and the person who will be governor will not be an outsider but a member of the PDP family …”, credited to state governor, Liyel Imoke, is a clear indication that the governor and his acolytes may have perfected plans to play God and tinker with the 2015 gubernatorial elections in CRS.
I wept uncontrollably when I read the news item published by www.calitown.com, about the derelict and dilapidated state of the tallest building (?) in Calabar, coincidentally named after Dr. Okoi Arikpo, SAN . It is obvious from what I read and what I can also see that the building suffers from benign neglect. Maybe authorities…
In a circular dated February 11, 2014, with reference no: GO/HOS/99/VOL.1/51, the 14 new Permanent Secretaries recently appointed into the CRS Civil Service by His Excellency, Liyel Imoke, Governor of CRS, were formally assigned ministries after what was viewed by many watchers as indecision on the part of government. Recall that shortly after the permanent secretaries…
Competent government sources have informed calitown.com that if CRS governor, Liyel Imoke gives his nod, in a matter of weeks, the state government will introduce a Waste Evacuation Service tariff, beginning with Calabar Metropolis and spreading to other urban centres in the state. The tariff proposal which was sent to His Excellency by the state Ministry of Environment…
In perhaps his first public remarks on the perceived pressure being mounted on him to handpick the person who will succeed him as governor in 2015, Cross River State governor, Liyel Imoke, has told the state’s Elders Consultative Forum, while hosting them recently, that “it is not the right kind of politics” for people to…
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