Cross River APC Dissociates Self From Petition Against Senator Jarigbe 

Ndifereke BASSEY  

The Cross River State All Progressives Congress(APC) has denied knowledge of a petition against the lawmaker representing Cross River North in the National Assembly, Senator Jarigbe Agom. 

The chairman of the party, Alphonsus Eba, disclosed this in the party secretariat in Calabar while reacting to a petition by the Northern Cross River Coalition, NORTHCO against the lawmaker.

He said the party did not authorise one Bernard Afu of NORTHCO to write any petition against constituency projects  allocated to the northern senatorial district in the 2025 budget. 

"Bernard Afu was engaged by the party in the guise of concerned stakeholders of the APC in the Northern Cross River. 

"I want to say that the right to do so is vested in this party under my leadership. This party fully dissociates ourselves from that. 

"On no account should anybody in the interest of our party engage any lawyer for any purposes that gives an impression that the party is behind it. 

"Therefore, the petition purportedly from the APC support group written against a sitting Senator of the Northern senatorial district on the issue of N12.5 billion constituency funds is not from us" he said. 

He, however, said NORTHCO is purely an APC affair and recognised by the party as a support group, saying " I expect the group to fully register with the party."