Cross River: APC guber candidate denies collecting money from PDP to concede defeat

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Cross River: APC guber candidate denies collecting money from PDP to concede defeat

The governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Cross River State, in the 2015 general elections, Odeh Ochicha has denied selling out his party during the 2015 general elections.

He said the media reports that he received money from the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, to concede defeat to the party were untrue and baseless.


Speaking with Vanguard, Ochicha said that he conceded defeat to the PDP candidate, Senator Ben Ayade in the spirit of sportsmanship which had been misinterpreted by some people that he took money from the PDP during the election.

According to him, “My attention has been drawn to some malicious and demeaning falsehood being peddled by some people that I, Mr. Odey Ochicha received money as compensation from Ayade and his party to concede defeat in the 2015 general election.

“Let it be stated for the records that I never had any sort of transaction with Ayade before, during or after congratulating him; I did what i did in my own wisdom and my exposure to understand politics as an interesting game and in the spirit of sportsmanship therefore, I want to inform the general public to disregard such wicked rumours”.

He said those spreading the rumour proved beyond reasonable doubt how and when he collected the money from Ayade and petition the EFCC to trace his records before and after the election to prosecute him if he is found guilty.


Ochicha added, “Let it be on record that although the decision to congratulate Ayade was my sole decision, when the party decided to challenge the election result in the Tribunal, I contributed financially for the party to pursue the case so this rumour is nothing but a figment of the fertile imagination of the criminal elements spreading it.

“I want to urge members of our great party to be wary of political foes who are out to ferment trouble, cause confusion, distraction and division in the party”.