Cross River State governor, Prof Ben Ayade, has not defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), contrary to reports in a section of the social media.
Ayade’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Christian Ita, in a statement on Friday evening, described as fake news the story that the governor is planning to defect to the APC, from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP).
Below is the full text of Ita’s statement:
“There is absolutely no truth to the report that Governor Ayade is defecting to the APC. It is fake news. It is the fertile imagination of the author of the report. The governor has a relationship with the President based on governance. So there is a need for us as a people to understand that governance is different from politics. Ayade is a committed PDP member,” the statement concluded.