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By Akpan David, Calabar
The chairman of APC in Cross River State, Barrister Alphonsus Ogar Eba has described the PDP Governorship candidate, Prof Sandy Ojang Onor as an Intellectual Illiterate.
He made the description at a news conference in response to a question from a reporter who wanted to know his reaction to the warning from Onor to banks and other lending not to attend to requests for more loans from the state government.
Onor had warned that the APC government should not generate and leave more debts for the succeeding government.
Responding, the APC chairman said he wanted to avoid the question because he still had some regards for the PDP flagbearer.
“If not that I still reserve some respects for the PDP flagbearer yet I can not but say that certain persons who claim to be academic intellectual are Intellectual Illiterate.
“If not, he would have known that the PDP government were those that left mountain of debts and that the Debts Management Office (DMO) and other agencies had since barred the state from taking further loans, local or international. This is because the state had since reached the zenith of borrowing.
“I am surprise that they pretend not to know this. Our government never thought of going to source for more loans”, he said.
Eba expressed dismay that the PDP and their supporters were unleashing violence already against them.
He said in the northern parts of the state PDP supporters were busy defacing APC posters and destroying their billboards.
He also frowned at what he described as acidic statements from the candidates of PDP against them.
“We are aware of the many acidic statements credited to PDP candidates against our party. We are a decent and lawful party. We are going to embark on this political processes using issues based approach.
“Our members should not descend to the low level of being violent. Our supporters should rather report to law enforcement agencies. They should not join them to take laws into their hands.
“In Cross River, we are one family. Politics should be played with ethics and decorum.”
