Cross River South Senatorial District is in

Cross River State ) , image_map = Nigeria - Cross River.svg , map_alt = , map_caption = Location of Cross River State in Nigeria , coordinates = , coor_pinpoint ...

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. It covers seven local governments areas of the state.

Gershom Bassey Gershom Henry Bassey (born 18 March 1962 in Lagos, Nigeria) is a Nigerian politician and multi millionaire businessman. He is the senator representing Cross River South Senatorial District in the Nigerian Senate. He is a senator of the 8th and ...

of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is the current senator representing the Cross River South Senatorial District at the Nigerian senate assembly. On 24 May 2020, the

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arrested 42 suspected cultists during initiation at

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LGA in Cross River South Senatorial District. In early 2020, some persons from the Cross Rivers State senatorial district, under the aegis of Cross River South Stakeholders Group and headed by High Chief Ita Ewa Henshaw, tried to recall the Senator representing the district by writing a petition of recall to the

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(INEC). The petition generated a lot of controversies but failed in its intended purpose.

List of senators representing Cross River South

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List of senators representing Cross River South

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