ADC chieftain dumps party, defects to APC

A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, and erstwhile president of the Labour Party successful Cross River State, Austine Ibok, has defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

Ibok, who announced his defection on Friday, besides directed his supporters crossed the 196 wards successful the state’s 18 section authorities areas to illness their governmental structures into the APC.

He said his determination followed consultations with his family, governmental associates and supporters, arsenic good arsenic what helium described arsenic prevailing governmental realities and the involvement of the state.

The erstwhile absorption chieftain cited what helium described arsenic a deficiency of cohesion, equity, justice, fairness and sincerity wrong his erstwhile party, peculiarly implicit zoning and different enactment decisions.

Ibok said his determination to enactment the Otu medication was based connected what helium described arsenic its grounds successful security, infrastructure, efforts to retrieve Cross River’s lipid wells and the improvement of the Bakassi Deep Seaport Project.

“Our enactment is driven by performance, governmental reality, and the corporate tendency to unafraid a brighter aboriginal for Cross River State done effectual and purposeful governance,” helium said.

ADC chieftain dumps party, defects to APC