), on Thursday received the Governor of Cross River State, Ben Ayade, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting was held about two weeks after the governor defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the ruling All Progressives Congress. Ayade told State House correspondents after the meeting that Buhari influenced him to join the ruling party. “My choice to join the APC is generating a lot of concern for the PDP occasioned by the fact that it came as a rude shock. “And sincerely, it is indeed a rude shock because until I defected, I was a very strong member of the party in truth and in spirit.

Source: Punch June 03, 2021 23:37 UTC