Group Raises The Alarm Over Plot To Rig NASS Election In Cross Rivers

A Group, Cross River Democratic Watch (CRDW) has raised the alarm over alleged plot  to clampdown on the opposition in the state ahead of the National Assembly election.

The group likened the alleged move to the sad experience in the last House of Representatives by-election for Ogoja/Yala federal constituency  ,February 26, 2022.

Expressing worry at the repeat of same scenario in 2023 election, the  coordinator and secretary of the group, Messers Emmanuel Agbor Agbor and Austine Ushie respectively, said the plot is already in top gear.

Agbor and Ushie in a statement  on Friday in Abuja 

disclosed a  Chief Superintendent of Police, Mr. Musa B. Mohammed, has been deployed from Nasarawa Command to take charge of the compromised Special Forces. 

They said ““We also call on the authorities to redeploy the Deputy Commissioner, Operations. Francis Idu, to guarantee a peaceful election in Cross River State. Our People are ready to die, for their rights. 

 “We shall resist any attempt to compromise the senatorial election in any form using unauthourised security presence,” the statement concluded.