The All
Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship candidate in Cross River State, Senator
John Owan-Enoh has pleaded with his counterpart in the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) Prof Bed Ayade to ensure that the blood of the people of the state should
not be shed during campaign.
Addressing a
press conference on Sunday, Owan-Enoh said “Blood of Cross Riverian should not
be shared during the course of our campaigns. Gov. Ayade should not encourage
campaign with bloodshed.
“As we go
into the field to canvass for votes, we should ensure that campaigns are
carried out in peaceful manner. It was his dream to ensure that the state
witness a free fair/peaceful elections devoid of bloodshed.
“I hope to
run the campaigns unimpeded across the northern and central senatorial district
of the state. We appeal to the leadership of Cross River State under the watch
of Prof. Ben Ayade to allow peace to reign in the state.”
The
governorship candidate said “I will welcome my opponent in my village with a
red carpet”, adding that a campaign with bloodshed was savage, barbaric and
should not be encourage.
Enoh promised
that if he is elected, the fortunes of the state will be turnaround so that the
state can witness “those better days it used to be in the past.”
On what he
intends to do to resolve the controversy surrounding the ownership of the
original candidature for the state APC guber candidate, Enoh stated that he had
so far extended olive branch to his friend, the minister of Niger Delta Affairs
who is claiming to be the candidate for the Cross River State APC even when the
party had given the ticket to him.
Enoh who is
a current senator representing Cross River central senatorial district stated
that he will give a listening ear to people’s opinion, adding that it would not
make him a lesser governor.
He said that
his government will not be run as a family affair, but as an all purpose
government which will accommodate all.
On the issue
of rumor making the rounds that his kinsmen were in tough opposition to his
candidature, Enoh said that it was ridiculous for anyone to think that his
people would be against him.
He said, “If
people who fought me in the past had known that as they are fighting me I will
live to stand here and canvass votes for governorship candidate, they wouldn’t
have done so at the first instance.”
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