declared that she will today, 7th April join the Cross River State
chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Mama Bakasi, as she is fondly called made this disclosure on Thursday in Calabar.
She said the reason for pitching her tent with the APC was because her contemporaries are in the party.
“I have been idle in the PDP for over one year now. It is time for me to move on politically with my huge Bakassi supporters.
Besides, nearly all my contemporaries are in the APC. So, it is time for
me to join them and work for the progress of the party at the state and
national levels.”
Ita-Giwa represented the Cross River South Senatorial District on the
platform of the All Peoples Party from May 1999 to May 2003.After her exit from the senate in 2003, she joined the PDP, and became
former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s Special Adviser on National
Assembly Matters.Reacting to the development, the Acting state Chairman of APC, Mr. John
Ochala, described her defection as a welcome development.“It is a welcome development. Her crossing over to the APC is good. She
should take her time to study and understand the party’s constitution.”