- Till today, I repeat again that there is not a single project by Governor Ayade in northern Cross River that is functional after eight years. They lie that the privately owned Obudu German hospital is working and send people to continue to snap pictures and show us but no one has showed us pictures of the doctors and the patients receiving treatment. Even the website they have on the hospital flyer isn’t working www.obudugermanhospital.com. They show you the Canadian school but you never see the teachers and the students in class. The rice mill is still sourcing for rice paddy. Etc.
- Never in the history of Cross River North have we had the level of penetration of gangster activities as we have had under Governor Ayade. Thugs, gang leaders, miscreants and otherwise young ambitious kids have all been initiated into murderous gangs in almost every village in Northern Cross River State because the Ayade government has made the joining of these gangs a status symbol and a prerequisite for getting his food on the table appointment. These kids kill with impunity with weapons purchased for them by State actors. It is also on record that no gang killing has ever been punished under Ayade as governor because the government is sponsoring and supporting these gangs from top to bottom. We cannot allow that to continue.
- Governor Ayade is a persistent supporter of the banning and regulation of social media. He hates press freedom. During the 2019 national summit of the Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation in Calabar, he made his loudest point about it when he said the social media is the cause of insecurity in the country as if social media has a gun or bomb, and has continued to pursue those who use the social media to hold his government to account until they bend and begin to support him. If he gets to the Senate, he will be a ready vote and supporter of the plan to ban social media which has remained the voice of the common people in this democracy.
- Governor Ayade is a clannish leader. He is sectarian in thinking. His family members, his people, his clan, his clique, are always better than the collective goal. If it’s not his way, then the whole house must crumble. He will sweep you off your feet when he needs you to run him errands and once he is done with you at that moment, his ears become deaf to reason. He lacks balls to take strong leadership decisions and has left his government for his loquacious younger brother who ruined all.
- Governor Ayade is a consummate dictator. He detests alternative views. He doesn’t want to be questioned. He considers himself a messiah and unquestionable. He thinks he came to do us a favor and not to serve us. He finds it difficult to sit in a room with opposing views. Even the State has been running without regular Exco meetings unless he needs them to sign him documents to conclude dubious transactions. He has surrounded himself with same folks whose only method of responding to criticism is violence, intimidation, bribing the Police to deal with opponents, incarceration of opponents and more.
Even those working closely with him will agree that I captured their boss correctly and I don’t want to be accused of not telling the Cross River North voter why he should be retired.
Yours sincerely
Citizen Agba Jalingo.
