Rose Onda
The immediate past Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar (Unical), Prof. Zana Akpagu today, Friday, February 19th, 2021 revalidated his membership of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
The revalidation exercise took place in Bebuagbong, polling unit 006, Ipong Ward in Obudu local government area of Cross River State.
Akpagu who was a popular Cross River North Senatorial aspirant under the APC in the just concluded by-election was accompanied to the exercise by thousands of his supporters.
Speaking, the APC stalwart said that it was time for Cross Riverians to come out in their numbers to join the APC ahead of the 2023 election.
He said that the poor performances of PDP in the state should make anybody that means we’ll for the State to embrace a progressive platform like the APC.
The former VC maintained that Cross River State is over ripe for APC to takeover and bleeding for an alternative platform with people oriented policies like the APC.
While calling on leaders of the party to close ranks to win elections, he said that “Politics is a game of number, now is time to take action and stop complaining of the misrule of the PDP.
The action we need to take send the PDP parking is for us to join the APC. We need to build our numbers and increase our membership so that we can change the impression that Cross River is a PDP state. We’ve too many progressive minded people in the state to continue to remain under the poor leadership of one party “.
