Cross Rivers Health commissioner, Betta Edu makes dramatic U-turn, deletes #Endsars tweets, pledges loyalty to Buhari

Cross Rivers Health commissioner, Betta Edu makes dramatic U-turn, deletes #Endsars tweets, pledges loyalty to Buhari

Cross River state health commissioner and infact, the youngest commissioner in Nigeria, Betta Edu has apologised to the All Progressives Congress for

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Cross River state health commissioner and infact, the youngest commissioner in Nigeria, Betta Edu has apologised to the All Progressives Congress for supporting the #EndSARS protest.

An active voice during the protest against decades of police brutality, Edu, now a staunc APC member, aspires to become the party’s national women leader.

Confronted by her past tweets as opposition within her party call for her disqualification, Edu in a statement on Tuesday declared her “total and complete” loyalty to APC and the Muhammadu Buhari administration.

“I acknowledge that a few of my spur-of-the-moment tweets and impulsive reactions to reports at the climax of the event may have been indelicate and distorted my true position on things. I am human, a mom, and thus given to emotions,” Edu said.

“However, I want to reassure and appeal to my progressive comrades who are expressing concern not to reduce my intentions and nuanced political views in the past to a couple of badly-worded tweets,” she added.

She further explained that her support for the #EndSARS protest was informed by her past experience in the hands of the Nigeria Police.

“When the ENDSARS protest first broke out in the year 2020 as a civil agitation against the very real problem of police brutality, like most Nigerians, I was sympathetic to the cause, more so because I have equally been subjected to a most traumatic experience by policemen who violated the ethics of their profession and my basic rights as a Nigerian,” Edu said.

On Monday, Edu who is a former Director General, Cross River State Primary Health Care Development Agency, CRSPHCDA, and a former special adviser to Ayade on community health, deleted her anti APC tweets, denying that she ever supported the historic #EndSARS protest.

However, Tweeps were quick to dig out her old tweets on the protest.