ABOUT 1000 youth members of the APC in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area, weekend, defected to the PDP.

UFUT—THE Munene of Ufut in Calabar South Local Government Area of Cross River State, Muri Effiong Mbukpa, has alleged that some influential persons incited criminals to march into his palace and attack him. He also said that the influential persons, who were working against his getting staff of office from the state government, meddled with court proceedings when he took the hoodlums to court.

EKENKPON—COMMUTERS voyaged with canoes on the East-West Road, a neglected federal highway, in Niger –Delta, weekend, as raging flood waters submerged a bridge and a segment of the public road at Ekenkpon community in Cross River State. The latest incident is coming three years after an analogous natural disaster in which flood swamped a different section of the East-West road, 2012, in Delta state.

Aniagwu stated, “ So, if anybody is crying that the man is not a Father Christmas, well, they would have to cry more for God to give them more tears to shed because Okowa is not going to throw money on the streets and at the end of the day, some big men will take what belong to the poor. “The target and focus of this administration is prosperity for all Deltans, which means even if you are in the creeks, you deserve as much as the big man that is in the city.”

Lateefat Bashiru, a petty trader has been bedridden for several months as a result of a road accident in which she suffered severe limb fracture. It all began when she boarded a commercial bus on January 18, 2014, but got involved in the road mishap. Lucky to escape with her life, she has however, been unable to walk due to the injury she sustained.