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From Joe Effiong, Uyo
Akwa Ibom State governor, Udom Emmanuel has attributed the current socioeconomic problems in Nigeria to incompetence, explaining that if the right persons were allowed to take up leadership, Nigeria would have fared better.
He stated this, yesterday, in Uyo during the flag off of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaigns for Akwa Ibom North East (Uyo) senatorial district and the symbolic handing over of flags to all candidates in the 2023 elections.
Emmnauel enthused that Akwa Ibom State would soon become a reference point for developmental projects in Nigeria and Africa.
He said the projects in the state were testimonies to what the current leadership had achieved and what the next governor would do. He assured that the party’s governorship candidate, Pastor Umo Eno, had the capacity to take Akwa Ibom to great heights.
“Believe me, he is a man of capacity. I keep saying it and I will repeat it until everybody hears me say that, if you cannot run a kiosk, you cannot run a multinational. If you have not created a dividend somewhere, you cannot create a dividend of democracy; that is why we are having the problems we are having in Nigeria today.
“But here in Akwa Ibom, we are blessed. Our next governor, the man of capacity is willing. Pastor Umo Eno is able, he is also reliable. How I wished that Nigeria had given us a chance, with the enormous human capacity we have in Akwa Ibom, so that Akwa Ibom would give them the President of Nigeria to turn around the economy of this country in less than no time. So, watch and see, that this state is going to be a reference state for the whole of Africa. It is going to be the flagship in the whole of Africa. The economic foundation that we have laid, he is going to build solidly on it, and Akwa Ibom will be forward ever, backward never,” he said.
