By Liberate Cross River State
Indigenes of Cross River State have lambasted the duo of Obano Obla, special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari and Jedy Agba, former Group managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC over what they termed attempts to blackmail Governor Ben Ayade and undermine his good works.
It was reliably learnt that Agbawho decamped from the Peoples democratic Party, PDP and joined the All Progressives Congress APC following his fears that he would be prosecuted for his alleged involvement in corruptly enriching himself has vowed that Ayade’s Super Highway and Deep seaport projects would not see the light of day unless he is ‘settled’.
According to some of the indigenes, Abga who hails from the same local government with the incumbent governor, has shown hatred for the people of Cross River State and ensured that the citizens did not benefit from position of authority even as NNPC boss.
In the words of one of the indigenes who graved anonymity, “In other clime people in position use their position to trigger development to their state or areas but for the duo of Obano Obla and Jedy Abga, their pass time has been to undermine their state, Cross River, in their frustration to undermine all the wonderful works the very purposeful Governor of Cross River State, Professor Ben Ayade is carrying out in the state.
“For Jedy Abga who is an Obudu man like the incumbent Governor, in his desperation to please his paymaster, after his defection to the APC as a result of the several corruption cases against him, he has been funding the opposition and the armies of lame armchair critics peddling false report about the governor and the state. The former GMD in the nation’s petroleum agency who had never employed a single Cross Riverians in the agency except his son after he left the NNPC. all the while he was in NNPC, has never added value to any Cross Riverian.
“In fact, he despised seeing Cross Riverians. This guy whose father is the traditional ruler of Obudu where the governor hails from cannot boast of any meaningful development to the areas courtesy of his position in NNPC. Embarrassingly, there is no decent road leading to the palace of his father who is the traditional ruler.
“He has become a milking pipe for Obla who takes advantage of him by defrauding him massively in the pretext that he would shield him from the EFCC. Obla, rather than use his present position to bring development to Cross River State his home state, is using the position to hunt the state and the governor in his quest to blackmail him to be patronized.
“He has vowed that if he is not settled, the super Highway and deep seaport, the signature projects of the governor, Ben Ayade, will not see the light of day. However, Cross section of Cross Riverians have condemned their mischief and desperate act as ungodly”.