A delegation from the People’s Democratic Party Governors’ Forum, PDP-GF, has held a closed-door meeting with Governor Ben Ayade in Calabar, the capital of Cross River State, south-south Nigeria.
The team, which was led by the Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal also included his Delta and Enugu states counterparts, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi.
After spending about two hours inside Government House Calabar with Ayade, Governor Tambuwal, who is also the Chairman of the PDP-GF told some newsmen that the meeting “was a fruitful, peaceful and productive engagement with the stakeholders of Cross River.”
“We are here on the mandate of the PDP-GF, which was sanctioned by the National Working Committee, NWC, to come and engage with our dear brother and colleague, Professor Ben Ayade, the Governor and other stakeholders of our party here in Cross River on the issues of the Congresses held here in the state that became contentious.
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“We have engaged with them and from our discussions by the grace of God we will soon resolve the issues and the party will bounce back as one. There were lots of concerns about how the Congresses went about and every one of us is interested in restoring normalcy so that the family is brought back together and work together for the common interest of Cross River State,” Tambuwal said.
He hinted that the delegation would report back to the Governors’ Forum and NWC for further deliberation and action.
The visitors later took a tour of the industrial park where Governor Ayade showed them a frozen chicken line called Calachika, the Cross River State Instant Noodles, branded KISIMIE Instant Noodles complex and the feed mill.
Zainab Sa’id
