No fewer than 90,000 Akwa Ibomites defied the early downpour to throng the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, last Friday for a historic second term declaration by the state Governor, Udom Emmanuel.
Udom, accompanied by his wife, Martha, governors of Abia and Rivers states, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu and Chief Nyesom Wike as well as former governors of Akwa Ibom and some other states, the Deputy Governor, Moses Ekpo, state and National Assembly lawmakers as well as other major stakeholders in Corporate Nigeria, watched with admiration as the state stood still in support of the governor’s return to office in 2019.
Speaking at the event, Governor Udom Emmanuel said he was presenting himself before his people, “for consideration to continue the good works you have so far helped me to achieve as your Servant-Leader on the platform of the only political party that Akwa Ibom people have trusted in the last 19 years of our democratic governance, the PDP.”
Udom, whose attempt to reel a summary of his accomplishments was received with affirmative echoes across the Nest of Champions, stated that despite the cloudy economic horizon, and a significant drop in the federal allocations to the state, his people showed great support and understanding and through their prayers his government was able to “navigate the troubled waters and come up with our heads held high, paying salaries, pensions and gratuities where, elsewhere, workers were groaning in pains of months’ long non-payment of salaries.”
He recounted the success story of his administration in the areas of massive investments in quality healthcare delivery, food security and affordability, and education, adding that infrastructural development and provision of amenities such as economically viable roads had opened up the hinterlands for people to engage in commercial activities.
Acknowledging the aphorism that ‘a job well done means more job to be done,’ the governor commended the people for their cooperation which has led to the establishment of several industries in the state, promising that he would continue to rise above personal interest to work towards the overall interest of the state.
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