Governor of Cross River State Professor Ben Ayade has said the 2022 Carnival Calabar will go despite the gruesome accident that happened on Tuesday, December 27 during the Bikers’ Parade when a Toyota Camry car rammed into fun seekers leaving seven persons dead and about 29 persons wounded.

The governor made this pronouncement this morning after visiting some of the victims of the accident at the Naval Hospital, Calabar.

Ayade said it has become necessary to go ahead with the carnival because it is an international event with many traveling from different parts of the world to be part of the carnival.

His words: “It is a national event; the festival has gone global; it is the second most celebrated carnival. We the management and the security council met and took a decision on whether to stop or to go ahead. We realized that it is on the international calendar. With all sympathy, with all sense of grief, pain, melancholy and agony, we submit to the will of God and say that we will still go ahead with today’s carnival.”