The Igbo National Council has issued a 14-day ultimatum to Cross River State Governor Ben Ayade to release detained journalist, Agba Jalingo.

The group’s president, Chilos Godsent, at a press conference in Owerri, the Imo State capital, warned that INC would storm Calabar to demand for the resignation or impeachment of the governor if the detained journalist was not freed within 14 days effective January 1

INC stated it would mobilise members of Civil Liberty groups and Human Rights Activists across the country to shutdown the State if Ayade refuses to release Jalingo who had been in detention since August.

He lamented that the Journalist has been remanded in prison even when the purported allegations leveled against him were bail able.

Agba Jalingo was arrested over report alleging that Governor Ben Ayade diverted N500m from the state coffers.