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| Duke recently at the Ayade's Industrial park where he marveled at Ayade's works |
Former Governor Donald Duke has taken a swipe on the incumbent Governor Ben Ayade, calling him a coward that was allowed to govern Cross River State.
Duke who was visibly angry made the statement on Wednesday when the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP campaign team visited Calabar Municipality Traditional Rulers Council.
He said Ayade had the guts to send him a text message telling him nonsense.
The text message Ayade sent to Duke is yet to be known but TDN gathered from Multiple sources conversant with details of former Governor Duke's outburst over Ayade's text message said: Governor Ayade sent Donald a message saying that they are family, complaining about Donald making him an object of campaign speeches and threatening to "expose" Duke, if he doesn't stop.
During the meeting Duke said such message from Ayade was an insult on his person, for someone who was nowhere when he became governor of Cross River State. He added that when he was governor Ayade was busy acquiring fake certificates with no published works to back his professorship.
He said the Governor in his last 7 years and 8 months has taken Cross River State 30 years backward, adding that they made a mistake in 2015 bringing him to govern the state.
Duke's statements reads below:
"Ayade has regressed Cross River State by over 30 years and he has the temerity to send me a text telling me nonsense. He is the most cowardly person that has occupied government house. They say water finds its level and Ayade has found his level in non-entity", Duke said.
Continuing, Duke said: "He [Ayade] is not a relative or family but I see him as an acquaintance who amuses me when I am bored. If I'm bored I could sit with Ayade and drink small stout and he will make me laugh but to think that I am his mate, I am not his mate at all.
"When we started this journey about 24 years ago, he was somewhere acquiring his fake degrees. Fake! You can't stand here and say this is a professor and Ayade would affirm that he is a professor. Professor of what? You know, we admit something, we made a mistake. In 2015, we made a grievous mistake by bringing someone from nowhere to Government House, Calabar and we have paid dearly for it. We are regressed for over thirty years. It's worse than I met it in 99 and he has the temerity to send me a text telling me such nonsense.
"You know, when you're a governor, you're the Chief Security Officer in the State. When #EndSARS struck, he was the first one to run. Even his ADC, did not know where he was. He is the most cowardly person that has occupied Government House. Absolutely! Now he says why is he the object of those campaign? Why not?"
"We are going to campaign on your records. It's a good thing and a blessing to us that he left PDP and went to where he is because you know they say, water finds its level, he has found his level; level of non-entities, that's where he is. It's not my place to derogate anybody, but I find that for that man who has ridiculed our State to this level with a twist and stupid budgets, you don't raise more than a hundred billion, you say you're budgeting 1.3 trillion. Are you crazy? Then you give it all kinds of fanciful names then you now have the temerity to talk to me because we are playing politics. What insolence!"
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Reacting to Donald Duke's outbursts, some Cross Riverians have taken to social media to attack Duke for insulting the office of the governor, some accused him of being childish and a money monger.
Recall that Duke was last year seen carrying Ayade's rice seedlings at the industrial park where he extolled the good qualities of Ayade wondering how the governor gets money to do the things he does and still pay salaries.
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