The Peoples Democratic Party in Cross River State said it would employ everything possible to stop Governor Ben Ayade’s plan to privatised state owned industries.
The state chairman of the party while speaking with journalists after taking oath office on Wednesday, said the party would mobilise people against the governor.
He said, “We are going to mobilise the people against the plan of Governor Ayade to privatise all the industries, which are not working, to himself.
“He used state resources and deceived the people that he was building this or that and now he wants to sell them to himself. We will not allow that.
“We are sounding a note to the governor that the time for him to abuse our people has passed and we will watch closely and mobilise every resource at our disposal to stop any attempt to privatise any industry, whether working or not working to himself.”
The chairman also promised to ensure that stakeholders that had left the party are brought back to strengthen it.
Meanwhile, the former governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke, charged the new executive to encourage new members willing to join the party.
Duke said, “There are so many things that make people decamp from a party, among them are injustice and non-transparency. You must avoid them and use the Ogoja/Yala vacancy as the first test of your committee’s success.”