Ayade Accuses Jalingo Of Plotting To Overthrow Buhari

By Ayodele Oluwafemi

Governor Ben Ayade  of Cross river State has claimed  that the publisher of Cross River Watch, Agba Jalingo wanted to overthrow President Muhammadu Buhari, before he was arrested.

Speaking to newsmen, after a meeting with President Buhari at the State House in Abuja, on Monday, Ayade disclosed that the Cross Rivers State Government has no hand in the trials of Jalingo, noting that  the Federal Government is in charge of the case.

He further stated that Jalingo has deviated from journalism  ethic to politics and he is being treated as a politician, not a journalist.

Ayade said: “In court, it is Federal Government versus Agba Jalingo, not Cross River State.  He’s in court for treason, a state does not have the power to try anyone for treason, it’s not me.

“On his Facebook page, he sent pictures where he was being teargassed at the revolution march in Lagos. His own pictures, posted by himself and when Sowore was being arrested, he went back to his Facebook to post that the revolution has just started, ‘we will continue this battle until revolution works’. He admitted this in Court.

“You are seeing him as a journalist, but he’s not, he’s the chairman of Sowore’s party in Cross River State so he’s a politician.

“He has a primary calling, which is journalism. Once he started the campaign to overthrow the government of President Buhari, he ceased to be seen from the point of a journalist because he has become the state chairman of a party.”

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