By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
Senator Mathew Mbu has been named the Acting Chairman of the Cross River State All Progressives Congress (APC) by the party’s Caretaker/Extra Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee chairman, Governor Mai Mala Buni.
He was inaugurated today August 25, at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja, in a ceremony that was attended by by the Secretary of the Committee, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe and Minister of State for Power, Goddy Jedy Agba.
In a statement signed by the APC’s deputy national publicity secretary, Yekini Nabena, Buni advised the newly-inaugurated chairman to be guided by the new, cordial and peaceful outlook of the state chapter in conducting his official affairs by carrying along all supporters, members and stakeholders in the state.
According to the release, Governor Buni also stated that the immediate task before the new acting chairman is to further unify party members in the state so as to strengthen the party’s chances for victory ahead of the forthcoming legislative by-elections in the state.
The Secretary of the Committee, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe, had met with Cross River State APC stakeholders over the prior factional and long-standing political disputes in the state chapter. Following the reconciliation achieved at the meeting, Senator Matthew T. Mbu was unanimously mandated to assume the office of the Cross River State Chairman of the Party.
