Ex-Calabar Municipality chairman faults Jarvis’ governorship ambition

A erstwhile president of Calabar Municipality, Mr Bobby Ekpenyong, has criticised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship campaigner successful Cross River State, Sir Arthur Jarvis Archibong, for seeking to govern the authorities without anterior acquisition successful nationalist office.

Ekpenyong, a erstwhile caput of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), described Archibong’s ambition arsenic an insult, arguing that helium lacked the acquisition required to govern the state.

He besides condemned a connection attributed to Archibong that determination was a vacancy astatine Government House, Calabar, describing it arsenic treasonable.

Speaking astatine a quality league successful Calabar, Ekpenyong said the PDP campaigner lacked acquisition successful authorities and governance.

“Arthur Jarvis is an apprentice successful authorities and governance. Cross River is excessively large and analyzable to beryllium handed implicit to specified a governmental neophyte,” helium said.

He argued that Archibong had ne'er held an elected oregon appointed nationalist bureau and advised him to statesman his governmental vocation astatine the grassroots.

Ekpenyong besides alleged that the PDP campaigner had nary important governmental achievements successful the state, adding that his precocious fat...