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Ayade, while addressing some stakeholders of the All Progressive Congress (APC) at the Governor’s Lodge on Sunday in Calabar, said his decision to return power to the south was based on morality.

In a statement by his spokesman, Femi Adesina, the president affirmed that the leadership strides of the former governor reverberated across the country, with innovative and creative strategies of development that placed Nigeria on the spotlight for rapid urban development, agriculture, industrialization, hospitality and tourism.

The Eagle Online recalls that the incumbent governor, Professor Ben Ayade, recently left the party.

Duke, who spoke with newsmen on Sunday while reacting to the destruction of properties on Friday and Saturday in Calabar by some hoodlums, said the act was not normal.

A former governor of Cross River, Donald Duke, has called on Federal Government to compel banks to reduce interest rate to the barest minimum to make credit available and affordable for small businesses.

A former Minister of Works, Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe, on Tuesday called for enactment of a law to compel attachment of portfolios to ministerial nominees presented to the Senate for screening.

Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has restated his commitment to ensuring that the Southern Senatorial District of the state produces the next governor in 2023.

Donald Duke, former governor of Cross River State and presidential candidate of Social Democratic Party, has lost his local government area, Calabar Municipal, to the Peoples Democratic Party.

Duke, in a statement he personally signed, likened the manner of Yakubu may exit from public glare to that of a former chairman of the then electoral body that conducted the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election, Prof. Humphrey Nwosu, which was won by late Bashorun Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola

Former governor of Cross River, Donald Duke, says he still remain the presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party and would present himself for the February 16 poll.

Falae’s resignation comes less than 24 hours after his party endorsed President Muhammadu Buhari for the February 16, 2019 presidential election

Donald Duke, the Social Democratic Party Presidential Candidate, says he is going ahead with his campaigns in spite of delays caused by litigation over his candidature.

The Social Democratic Party National Working Committee is to meet and review the Court of Appeal judgment that recognised former Governor of Cross River, Donald Duke, as the presidential candidate of the party in the forthcoming general elections.

Donald Duke, the Presidential Candidate of the Social Democratic Party, says he will appeal the judgment removing him as the party’s presidential flag bearer.

The party had declared a former Governor of Cross River, Donald Duke, the winner of the election and its flag bearer for the 2019 general election

The party had declared a former Governor of Cross River, Donald Duke, the winner of the election and its flag bearer for the 2019 General Elections.

SDP National Publicity Secretary, Alfa Mohammed, who gave the confirmation on Thursday in Abuja, said that the substitution was done long ago.

The organisers had announced that only presidential candidates of the ACPN, Alliance for New Nigeria, All Progressives Congress, Peoples Democratic Party and Young Progressives Party would be partaking in the debate.

Duke, represented by Precious Elekima, the governorship candidate of the party in Rivers State, made the promise on Monday in Port Harcourt at the flag-off of the party’s campaign for 2019 polls in Rivers State.

Duke told newsmen on Thursday in Lagos that no matter how good a candidate’s intentions are, the person cannot perform is he becomes President on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party.