C'River: PDP members protest chairman’s reinstatement
Venatius Ikem THERE was a drama at the Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Cross River State, as members carried various placards in protest against an alleged plan by the national secretariat to reinstate the ousted state chairman of the party. The protest, was carried out by the wards and local government’s chapters of the PDP across the state. Armed with placard of various inscriptions, the protesters threatened to leave the party should the removed chairman, Mr Venatius Ikem, be reinstated. Some of the placards reads: Ikem must go, all wards and local governments chapter rejects Vena, the decision of the Cross River State Working Committee (SWC) is the best for the party. Led by the Calabar Municipality chairman, Mr Bassey Asuquo, the protesters said that removal of Ikem was the best thing to have happened to the party. Asuquo said that the party faithful no longer want Ikem as the party chairman as his leadership had stagnated the growth of the party in...