Cross River APC rejects Ayade's defeat threatens legal action

All Progressives Congress (APC), Cross River State has rejected Senator Ben Ayade’s defeat at the just concluded February 25, Northern Senatorial election where Senator Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe was declared the winner.

The state party chairman, Mr Alphonsus Ogar issued the threat yesterday at the party Secretariat in Calabar while briefing newsmen on what he described as a pyrrhic victory for the PDP.

Oga who threatened a lawsuit accused the opposition party, PDP of conniving with some military personnel to rob them of their victory.

Ogar alleged,” Nefarious behaviour of some generals who connived with our opposition to intimidate and harassed us. That declaration is a pyrrhic victory that will evaporate into the thin air.