Police stop APC congress as new chairman emerges in Cross River (Punch)

At least no fewer than 100 fierce-looking policemen on Sunday sealed off the Ikot-Ansa Town Hall, proposed venue of the congress of the All Progressives Congress in Calabar, Cross River State. They said the intervention was meant to avert what was referred to as ‘bloodbath’. Despite the blockade, a faction of the APC led by a former governor of the state, Mr. Clement Ebri; and the senator representing the central senatorial district in the National Assembly, John Owan-Enoh, elected a new chairman, Dr. Mathew Achigbe and other executive members of the party by voice votes at another venue. Read more

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