Backslash, Knocks Trail Ayade Over Tribunal Case Against Jarigbe

... Allow Us To Bemoan Your Wasted Years in peace - Ayade's kinsmen

By Our Reporters

In what appears to be a major blow to former Governor of Cross River, Senator Ben Ayade who is wrestling the Cross River Senate Ticket with Senator Jarigbe at the Election Tribunal, kinsmen of the embattled politician have described the case as a demonstration so greed and self-delusion.

Speaking at separate interviews after witnessing the ongoing hearings in a petition instituted by Ayade seeking the nullification of the election that produced Senator Jarigbe, a prominent community leader from Obudu Chief Eddie Agba described the case as an "exercise in futility."

He revealed that the defeat of Ayade at the polls was a protest vote from electorates across party lines to demonstrate their grievances over the abysmal performance of Senator Ben Ayade while serving as a governor.

According to Chief Agba, we had thought that having left office and abandoned by his litany of sycophants who were goading him on during the egocentric voyage for their selfish reasons, he would have honourable withdrawn the case and allowed the young man whom we voted to concentrate, but it is shocking and embarrassing that he has opted to dwell in self-delusion in furtherance of his greedy intentions."

"The puzzle is what does Ayade want to do in Cross River North that he could not achieve in his eight as Governor or the initial four years as a Senator?

"We have been waiting for him in the dilapidated Council of Chief Chambers in Obudu to come and give an account of his stewardship as his immediate constituency since he left office, but he has been avoiding the village. We are still waiting patiently. He certainly has explanations to render over our ancestral farmlands and government property annexed and converted to personal use.

"Since the present government have chosen to play the Ostrich for political sagacity, the people of Cross River North are not politically docile."

Speaking in the same vein, Ukani Ogar said: "Our son, Agba Jaling.o has been challenging Ayade to pinpoint any of his phantom projects or industries that have been concluded and are now functional. It's not enough to lie or weep on national television to deceive the gullible ones and weep up sentiments. Let Ayade take up the challenge from Agba and name one project that is running."

"He should allow us to bemoan the wasted years he spent in the office with nothing to show in peace. Now Obudu people are treated with skepticism because of Ayade's inglorious record in public office.