By Aniekan Aniekan, Calabar
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Cross River State has denied knowledge of a petition against lawmaker representing Cross River North, Senator Jarigbe Agom.
Chairman of the party, Alphonsus Ogar Eba disclosed this in Calabar while reacting to a petition by the Northern Cross River Coalition (NORTHCO) against the lawmaker.
He said the party did not authorise Bernard Afu of NORTHCO to write any petition against the constituency projects allocated to the northern senatorial district in the 2025 budget.
“Bernard Afu was engaged by the party in the guise of the concerned stakeholders of the APC in the Northern Cross River.
“I want to say that the right to do so is vested in this party under my leadership. This party fully dissociates ourselves from that.
“On no account should anybody in the interest of our party engage any lawyer for any purposes that gives an impression that the party is behind it
“Therefore, the petition purportedly from the APC support group written against a sitting Senator of the Northern Senatorial District on the issue of N12.5 billion constituency funds is not from us,” he said.
He, however, said that NORTHCO is purely an APC affair and recognised by the party but as a support group, saying he expects the group to fully register with the party.
The state chairman also disclosed that the state working committee of the party has resolved that Governor Bassey Otu and his , Peter Odey, were the sole gubernatorial candidates of the party in the 2027 elections.
He said nobody changes a winning team and the state party executives were happy with the governor’s achievements.