Nyok|6 October 2018
Mr Eyo Ekpo Esq the governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, in Cross River State recently charged fellow politicians to a violence free political campaign NegroidHaven has confirmed.
He did this while reacting to the news of the altercation that took place this week between Sen Gershom Bassey and Engr Ekpo Okon who are of the PDP and vying for the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. According to him, 'Amidst all the dissension and jockeying, the people of Cross River State and particularly the two aspirants, their supporters and Cross River South Senatorial District, must remember that this is not a do-or-die affair. Whoever wishes to stand in service to Nigeria and to Cross River must first see very clearly, that it is now all about hard work in times of great difficulty for our people. If indeed any aspirant to public office truly wishes to serve, violence must be something that is very far from such a person.'
Ekpo called on those challenging for political positions in the state to desist from acts capable of causing chaos but to rather commit themselves to a campaign and election that is “totally devoid of violence and resort to underhand means.”
Ekpo who is vying for the number one seat in Cross River State on the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), stated that all those who seek political offices do so to serve and should therefore comport themselves in a manner worthy of the offices they seek to occupy, as “if indeed any aspirant to public office truly wishes to serve, violence must be something that is very far from such a person.”
He further added that “Cross River State's recession into poor governance is in grave danger of going even deeper, past a point from which we may not be able to return. Too many of us tend to get fixated on the less than six months of campaigns that seem to haunt us for so very long.”
The former Cross River Attorney-General was responding to the alleged attack on the Senator representing the Southern Senatorial District, Senator Gershom Bassey by hoodlums, said to be supporters of Ntufam Ekpo Okon in Calabar, and maintained that “all political parties must publicly pledge” to peaceful electioneering.
“Amidst all the dissension and jockeying, the people of Cross River State and particularly the two aspirants, their supporters and Cross River South Senatorial District, must remember that this is not a do-or-die affair.” Ekpo insisted.
Nyok
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