PATRICK ABANG, Calabar –
Ahead of the February 26th by-elections in Cross River State, a socio- political group known as the All Progressives Congress (APC) lobby group made of young professionals in the Governor Ben Ayade led administration has vowed to mobilized over 30,000 youth across the 196 political wards in the state.
Oden Ewa, Chairman of the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) disclosed this on Wednesday in Calabar while addressing Journalists on the preparation made so far for the APC youths summit, which is scheduled to hold on the 19th of February, at U.J Esuene Stadium, Calabar.
According to Oden, the mandate of the youth summit is to bring all relevant stakeholders on the table and to demonstrate their capacity to mobilized and win the forth coming by-elections in APC Cross River.
‘We are also here to thanked our digital governor Senator Ben Ayade for giving us an opportunity which is more than any administration put together in the history of our State’
The group also thanked the State Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for sensitizing members of the party ahead of the Ogoja Yala Federal Constituency and the Akpabuyo State Constituecy.
Also speaking, The Director General of Primary Health Care Development Agency, Janet Ekpeyong, said the summit is a youth awareness campaign for the wonderful support the governor had provided for the youth in the state
Another member of the group, Francis Ekpo, Special Adviser to Governor Ben Ayade said the youth have the capacity to take the state to higher level .
