Governor Ayade in Soup as The Three Wisemen Regroup

Ifere Paul|17 January 2016|5:23am

*I have received information that Donald, Gersh and Liyel are regrouping so as to front Senator Gershom Bassey for Governor in 2019. Ekpo Okon will go for Senate. They say Ayade is a big mistake. They want to restrict Ayade's two term to a single term. They feel that this must be done as they are losing grip of the State.
Ayade on his part, is perfecting plans to freeze them out of PDP's Congress which comes on early next year. And that the State in Ayade's hand for four years will do a 20 years collateral damage.

I got the above information on Thursday and decided to investigate it before making it public. So, this morning I went to to verify it. I went to see my men at the ministry of environment to keep get gist. From there, I went to Calabar South to see one political kingpin of the south. Lucky me, I got all the gist I needed and more.

Itching with one single fact, I stopped over at Water Board to see how they were fairing. And I was able to confirm the entire story I got initially. The information I'm sharing here is classified. And the information above was only circulated among top political lordlords of Cross River State, including some Senators, and some House of Representatives Members.

Ekpo Okon: He is the current Water Board chairman that was appointed by Governor Ben Ayade. Before his appointment, Ayade had sacked the services of Ortec Nigeria Limited as the consultant to water related services to Water Board Calabar.

In their place, Ayade brought in Techvibe Nigeria Limited. Techvibe is own by Tabi Taiwo, a friend of our so called digital governor. Techvibe is a multimedia conglomerate with expertise in media management, and with a lot of experience in the information technology sphere. Obviously, Techvibe had no primary or secondary experiences in water management.

As Ortec services were terminated, Ortec withdrew all its staff including water treatment experts. Techvibe could not get an instant hire of a water treatment experts, hence they started supplying untreated colorated water. Which was what I reported recently.

In response to that article, governor Ben Ayade in his listening manner to my revelation terminated the appointment of Techvibe. According to confirmed information, Ayade was angry with his friend who owns the Techvibe.

Ekpo Okon, saw an opening here and cornered Techvibe. Reemployed them, settle the debt of some staff of Ortec who demonstrated initially, and also hired Ortec treatment experts. The lies in it is that Ekpo Okon has lied to the governor that he is handling the water issues with the Ministry of Water Resources. Meanwhile, Ayade has directed that all water registration and metre issuance be done within the old regime of #2, 500. But as we speak, metre registration is 18k-25k.
All proceed above the #2,500 goes to individual pockets. It is not confirmed whose pocket the money goes to.

Gershom Bassey: The relationship between Gershom and Ayade had never been so good. Gershom, who is a rather quiet man has a dislike for too loud personalities like Ayade. Gershom Bassey is said to be sharing top secrets on how Ekpo Okon could make money in the water board. If Ekpo Okon is allowed to gather so much money like Gershom Bassey did in the water board, he can engineer his ambition without problem in 2019. Gershom, of course was the water board chairman, and still yield high influence there.

Meanwhile, Gershom in his Xmas party with the Efiks kings and political chiefs, across the southern senatorial district, told his guests that he may explore other political fortunes in 2019. Fingers are beginning to point to Sen. Gershom Bassey as the next governor.

Senator Ben Ayade: Smart and fast to act to protect his interest, Ayade quickly jumb the table and invited former Donald Duke in the Bikes Carnival. Ayade who gave Duke a super bike of over 10million to use in the bikers show. Whether Ayade will be able to keep Donald on his team till 2019 will be left to be seen. Donald extravagance is way higher than that of Ayade. Can Ayade keep the cash coming? Only time shall tell.

Even as plans to unseat Ayade in 2019 heightens, Governor Ayade comatose and internet media rats does not seem to know this. All they ever know is to peddle falsehood aimed at blackmailing Ifere Paul. Forgetting that Ifere Paul has achieved so much for Cross River State by fighting the imposition of #14,750 on waste bins by Ayade government. At the end, it was given for free. Ifere single handle handedly fought Ayade in the sell off of the Cross River State forest reserve for the State debt today we have our forest. And sustainable plans have been. Ifere was on top of the fix Calabar metropolis potholes and free Calabar waste hills projects.

Ifere championed the clean and treated water supply in Cross River State. And today I can report that Techvibe although sacked by Ayade has been dubiously called back by Ekpo Okon. And I know Governor Ben Ayade must do something. He also advised the government on its EIA report which the government rejected. The consequences of that was the cancelation of the initial PMB visit for the groundbreaking. He recommended the transfer of waste evacuation and management to CUDA.
Ifere has written over seven series of article supporting the Garment Factory with viable ideas. But Ifere has refused to publish the public recommendations which formed the major part of the policy framework which should have guided government policy templates.

As far as Cross River State is concerned, Ifere's vision for the State is to see a prosperous State. Devoid of the intrinsic nepotic and tribalistic tendencies exhibited by the previous administration and which is forming the policy mechanics of Ben Ayade. Let Ayade do the needful without the media hype. Let him employ the services of people who can tell him to the face, the direction he has taken. Governance is not when you pay salaries and talk about. Indirectly sending armed robbers to people's houses.

Cross River State deserve better things. If Ayade can achieve all the things put forth, Ifere will have nothing to criticise the government.

Ifere Paul
Is an Environmental Activist & Public Policy Analyst