Cross River LG Polls: APC submits parallel lists as 7 political parties indicate interest
Seven political parties are participating in March 28 local government council election in Cross River State.
“We have collected lists from eleven political parties before the deregistration by INEC and after the deregistration, we have just seven, including APC, PDP, SDP, YPP, NNPP, Labour Party, APGA, these are the parties that will appear in our ballot papers. “The election is visible, is realisable and it will hold and we have commenced a lot of activities in preparation for the exercise. We had had meetings with political parties and stakeholders, we have gone ahead to advertise for the adhoc staff which hasn’t been concluded.”
He said ‘it was an internal party problem which of course, the commission don’t have to go into it but as a commission, the two factions have been coming during meetings with political parties, APC always come with two Chairmen, two Secretaries, two these two that, so what the commission did, we advise them to put their house together because this action has consequences.
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