Huge crowd welcomes Imoke, Ayade as campaign trainstorms Ikom

In continuation of the Cross River State Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, campaign rally ahead of the general elections, a
huge crowd of supporters besieged the Government College,
Ikom, to receive the campaign train led by the Chairman of
the Campaign Council, Governor Liyel Imoke, the party
governorship standard bearer, Senator Ben Ayade, as well as
other candidates of the party.
The huge crowd which had turned out as early as 8am to
receive Ayade and his running mate, Professor Ivara Esu, bore
large posters, banners and handbills bearing photographs of
President Goodluck Jonathan, Ben Ayade and other candidates
with messages such as ‘No vacancy at Aso Rock Villa’,
‘President Jonathan, you have done very well, you deserve a
second term’, ‘Ayade for continuity’, Owan Enoh, it’s your turn
at the Senate’.
In a carnival manner, the crowd sang, danced and chanted the
names of both President Jonathan and Senator Ayade.
Addressing the teeming crowd, comprising the old and the
young, the state governor, Senator Liyel Imoke, reminded them
of the need to queue behind the PDP team compromising
President Goodluck Jonathan, the governorship candidate and
his running mate as well as the senatorial, House of
Representatives and House of Assembly candidates from the
zone. Imoke charged the party supporters not to make the
mistake of sending wrong representatives who would not
promote their collective interest but their own narrow and
selfish agenda. “Do not allow those who have benefited from
the party but who have suddenly decided to pitch their tents
elsewhere to deceive you with promises they know too well
that they cannot deliver,” Imoke said.
He said: “No representatives in Abuja have the capacity to
attract anything to you. It is only the governor in Calabar that
can do that. But then, he needs the people you are sending to
Abuja to work with him because you cannot afford to have
your governor in PDP and your senator and House of
Representatives members in another party.”
Assuring the campaign team of total support, the paramount
ruler of Ikom, His Royal Majesty, Dr. Ntool Emang Peter Eku,
said: “Since 1999, the people of Ikom have always followed
the PDP. We have enjoyed tremendously from aligning with the
PDP, we are not ready to shift position now. It does not
matter how many of our sons and daughters may be in other
parties, but PDP is the only one united family we know. My
subjects decided long before the campaign train berthed in our
domain that we will support President Goodluck Jonathan,
Senator Ben Ayade, John Owan Enoh, and Mike Etaba all the
way.”

crowd welcomes Imoke