APC resists plans to convert Tinapa to university

The All Progressives Congress in Cross River State has resisted plans by the state government to convert the Tinapa Business and Leisure Resort to a university.

The party described the idea as “laughable and the height of hallucination.”

Governor of Cross River State, Ben Ayade had in a television programme recently mooted the idea of turning the resort into a “first class university.”

A statement by the State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr. Bassey Ita, made available to The Nation in Calabar on Thursday, read, “Ayade will not stop amusing Cross River people. The people of Cross River are daily inundated with promises of this or that, which have all remained only in the realm of imagination.

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“We just begin to laugh each time Ayade makes his promises of constructing this or that. Yes we laugh over it because there are just products of hallucination. Each time he travels abroad and thinks of a story beyond MOUs, he comes back with the idea of another empty promise. Cross Riverians are now too wise to believe these antics”.

“It is really amusing that a government which cannot subvent the only State University, Cross River University of Technology (CRUTECH) to take care of its accreditation and other academic challenges, can be talking of constructing a research-based university. Such pronouncement confirms our fear of hallucination as being at the centre of these empty promises”.

“We urge the Governor to convince us of its seriousness with the project, by firstly subventing CRUTECH, paying pension arrears, completing the superhighway, deep seaport, among other projects he earlier promised but abandoned before turning Tinapa to a University.”

The statement urged the Governor not to tamper with the Tinapa Resort because “APC has great plans coupled with the goodwill of the President Buhari led administration to revive the resort and make it work”.

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