As tension continues to rise and mass defection looms in PDP across the country over alleged decision of the party’s leadership to issue automatic Ticket to all interested federal lawmakers in the party, the Cross River state Chairman of the party, Ntufam Edim Inok has confirmed the allegation saying it is only the state governor that can reverse the party’s decision on the matter.
Speaking to IGBERE TV reported on the issue at the PDP Secretariat Calabar, Inok stated that instructions from the PDP national secretariat had stipulated that only the state governor would direct before any further action can be implimented.
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“We actually had a meeting with our National Vice Chairman, South to clear the air on the pronouncement concerning the automatic tickets, which brought disaffection among party members
“The pronouncement will come directly from the leader of the party (Prof Ben Ayade) and when he is back, we would appeal to him to make another Town Hall Meeting for all the caucuses.
“Unfortunately, the governor is not in town; so what he actually wanted to inform the aggrieved people could have come from the mouth of the governor directly.
“But the information has not been given because it has to come from the governor himself. Then governor is not in town.
“We are threatened by defection; all we are saying is that the right thing should be done. Anybody can decide to defect but finally it boils down to the will of the people, it will be determined by what the people (caucuses) want,” Inok said.
