Igbo National Council to Declare Cross River Gov Ayade a Persona Non Grata

ThankGod Emeh. 

The Igbo National Council (INC) said it will be compelled to declare Governor Benedict Ayade of Cross River State Persona Non Grata across the country till Comrade Agba Jalingo is unconditionally released while thanking all the Human Rights Groups, Pro-democracy and Civil Society Organizations that has signed-in to take part in the forthcoming Occupy Calabar Protest for the release of the detained journalist and three other political detainees and Prisoners of Conscience (PoC).

According to a release issued by the President of the Pro Igbo Organization, Comrade Chilos Godsent, “Comrade Agba Jalingo and the three other political detainees and Prisoners of Conscience (PoC) are held in solitary confinement by the despotic and tyrannical government of Cross River State under the headship of Governor Benedict Ayade”

The INC who decried the ugly manner in which the Cross River Governor Benedict Ayade pilots the affairs of the state called on Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), National University Commission (NUC), Police Service Commission (PSC), National Judicial Council (NJC) and National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to call the state government led by Professor Benedict Ayade to order before things gets out of hands.

The group expressed gross dissatisfaction and concerns why the judge in charge of Agba Jalingo’s case had to travel with the case file.

“We are dismayed to hear that the former Judge handling the Agba Jalingo matter traveled with the case file to God knows where”

“In view of the above, we hereby call on the Nigeria Union of Journalist (NUJ) to blacklist Governor Benedict Ayade and the entire Cross River State government and parastatals till Comrade Agba Jalingo who is a fellow journalist is unconditionally released from detention”

“We also call on the National University Commission (NUC) to probe the Professorship of Governor Benedict Ayade because his conducts are colossal embarrassment to the professorship title”

We are also calling on the Police Service Commission (PSC) to set-up a Panel of Enquiry to investigate the activities of AIG Austin Agbonlahor while he was serving as the Commission of Police in Cross River State”, the Igbo National Council stressed.

It added “Finally, we appeal to the National Judicial Council (NJC) and National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to intervene in Comrade Agba Jalingo”s case in other to save the judicial in Cross River State from being hijacked by desperate politicians in the State”.

There were notable indications in the release by the INC that Civil Liberties Organization (CLO), United Action for Democracy (UAD), Take it Back Movement, Civil Rights Council (CRC) and many others has signed-in to participate in the mother of all protest in Calabar this January.

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