Cross River Information Commissioner explains Eba’s removal as APC chairman

The recently appointed Commissioner for Information and Orientation successful Cross River State, Pastor Ekpenyong Cobham, has fixed reasons for the removal of erstwhile president of the All Progressives Congress, APC, successful the state, Mr Alphonsus Ogar Eba.

Cobham spoke during his maiden enactment with journalists successful Calabar, wherever helium said Eba’s removal followed allegations of fiscal impropriety, maladministration and nonaccomplishment to conscionable immoderate obligations to members of the party’s State Working Committee.

Eba, who served arsenic APC president during the medication of erstwhile Governor Ben Ayade and the archetypal 2 years of the medication of Governor Bassey Otu, has since joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), wherever helium is the moving mate to the party’s governorship candidate.

The erstwhile APC president had precocious criticised the Otu administration, alleging, among different things, that authorities contracts were being awarded to associates and household members and that funds were being paid to groups to forestall unit and different vices.

Responding to the allegations, Cobham questioned Eba’s credibility to marque specified accusations, citing allegations antecedently levelled against him during his clip arsenic Director-General of the state’s Due Process Office.

According to the commissioner, Eba allegedly failed to adhere to the principles guiding the bureau and was progressive successful transactions concerning nationalist asset...