April 01, (THEWILL) – A socio-political organisation, De Cruise Network, has appealed to the Cross River Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Professor Sandy Onor, to shelve his plan to go to court.
The group said the people of the state must unite across party lines to ensure the incoming governor of the state, Prince Bassey Otu, succeeds.
The group made the call in Calabar during a press conference addressed by its director-general, Comrade Nji Nji.
He said, “We want to appeal to all Cross Riverians to come and join hands with Prince Otu to make Cross River great.
“We call on the candidate of the PDP, Sen. Sandy Onor and other candidates, traditional leaders, opinion leaders, market women, union leaders, leaders of faith-based organisations, youth and Students leaders, women leaders, etc, to come join our Governor-elect to work for Cross River State.
“Prince Otu as the captain of the ship won’t do everything alone. Where we are today as a State, we don’t need the distraction that the PDP candidate wants to bring with his declaration that he’ll challenge the election.
“We know it’s within his right to do so, but in the interest of the state, we appeal to him to demonstrate good sportsmanship and brotherhood by not only congratulating the winner but committing to support his administration.
“The government that’s coming up won’t engage in any form of discrimination. The government will buy into any idea that’ll bring development to the State regardless where it comes from”, the group said.
They added that by 29h of May when the new government will come in place, governance will begin immediately.
In their words, “The new Governor understands that politics is not part of executive functions and is not wiling to play politics with anything that’ll bring development to our State”, the group said.
They said as a leading support group of the party, they will continue to do their best to ensure the next administration ends as the best in the history of this state.
THEWILL Correspondent, Aniekan Bassey has over six years experience that spans across several fields in print journalism including development communication, sexual reproductive and health rights issues, crime, climate change, social justice, business and human interest stories.
