A former governor of Akwa Ibom
State, Godswill Akpabio, has given conditions under which he will support
incumbent Governor Udom Emmanuel for second term.
The Senator spoke at the annual
get-together organized by the deputy governor, Chief Moses Ekpo.
Akpabio said he would support the
governor for a second term if perceived current marginalization of his
senatorial district was addressed.
He warned that the era of
‘carry-go’ politics was gone and charged the governor to brace up for the big
task.
The former governor, who is
widely believed to have installed the incumbent governor against all odds in
2015, pointed out that he would only endorse Emmanuel’s re-election and rally
support for him if the policies and programmes of the administration were not
discriminatory against Ikot Ekpene geo-political zone.
He said, “2018 is less than one
year to election, all is not well, don’t allow anybody to deceive you that all
is well. If the hotel in Ikot Ekpene rots after so much money had been expended
on the project, would that be a good thing?
“That road from Uyo to Ikot
Ekpene, is still the way it was. In the 2018 budget, what is the percentage for
Ikot Ekpene senatorial district?”, Akpabio asked, and charged the governor to
remove the wedge that stifles development in his zone or be prepared to face
the consequences of such action in 2019.
“My job is to say the truth
because if at this level I cannot say the truth, then I am not doing well. So
please I want us to start the hotel because when the Commissioner for Works
addressed the youths in August, he assured them that the hotel would be opened
in December. Please let us check the budget to know what has been earmarked for
that place. I am not interested in what I did and what I did not do, I am only
interested in what I am going to do.
“The truth is that Godswill
Akpabio expects us to set our path straight so that we can take one route. Even
when you are going for communion, you must be in a state of grace, so let us
have something from the senatorial district to use in talking about election;
to use in convincing the people to stand by us. We are in opposition, we don’t
have government, we don’t have Police, we don’t have INEC.”
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