Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State is in big trouble as members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state have stormed the party’s national headquarters in Abuja to protest against his emergence as the party’s governorship candidate for the 2019 election.

The angry protesters who demanded for the annulment of the primary which produced Ayade against their favoured aspirant, Emmanuel Ibeshi, said; “This is capable of causing the party to lose a state it has held for 20 years of our current democracy. Whatever the consideration, is it worth losing Cross River State?”

“We are calling on the NWC to urgently correct this anomaly by cancelling the recently conducted governorship primary in Cross River State and ordering a fresh inclusive primary as was the case in the just concluded PDP presidential primary in Port Harcourt.”

Besides, the aggrieved members who are said to be under the aegis of Cross River State PDP Support Group has thereby sent a petition to the party National Chairman, Uche Secondus, alleging that their favourite aspirant, Ibeshi was excluded from the primary.