A Socio-Political group, Boki Youth Vanguard has threatened to boycott the activities of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River state if zoning arrangement is used in the selection of party candidates for the June 17 local government elections.
Coordinator of the group, Mr Kenneth Bisong, who led over 500 youths in a peaceful protest in Calabar on Tuesday, kicked against zoning of the chairmanship position to Bunyia/Okubuchi ward in Irruan clan in Boki local government area by a socio-cultural group, Nchibe Bokyi.
Their grouse is that Bunyia/Okubuchi ward has produced a senator and a House of Representatives member, two former council chairmen and one time military administrator of Bayelsa state.
Bisong maintained that the Nchibe Bokyi Association is not a political group but rather, a socio-cultural group that is saddled with the responsibility of uniting the people of Boki.
He said that since the creation of Boki local government area in 1991, the people of Kakwagom/Bawop ward has not benefitted from any elected political office, hence the need to give the ward a chance to produce the next chairman of the local government.
The group coordinator also frown at circumstances whereby Nchibe Bokyi was not doing enough to quell the ongoing crisis between the landlord communities of the Boki palm estate that have left one dead over the tussle and several persons injured, but was rather discussing politics.
The group, however, called on gov. Ben Ayade to intervene by supporting a chairmanship aspirant from the Kakwagom/Bawop ward for the sake of equity and fairness.
“They meeting that carried out the zoning was held against the instructions of the state governor when he announced that all political meetings be suspended forthwith.
“We are solidly behind gov Ayade and we want him to use his good office to allow the people of Kakwagom/Bawop ward to produce the next chairman of the council.
“If we allow this zoning to take place, then the party at the local government level in Boki will be divided into factions and this will not be healthy.”
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