Akwa Ibom State government has dismissed anxiety over the strength of rival All Progressives Congress (APC) and its capacity to take over the state in 2019, saying the party has no genuine agenda for Akwa Ibom people.
Governor Udom Emmanuel, who stated this yesterday, said the APC led by immediate past governor, lacks the capacity to pose any serious threat to the PDP noting that the “APC doesn’t sound like people with any genuine agenda for the state.” Specifically, the governor said those the party in the state have nothing to offer noting for instance the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) headed by an APC govenorship aspirant, Mr.
Nsima Ekere, and lamented that he has not attracted any tangible project to the state as head of the interventionist agency in the state in the last three years.
“If those they want to bring control budgets of nine states and all the IOCs and you are in Akwa Ibom, you have been here over how many years now, we have not seen even a kilometre of road commissioned with such huge sum of money, so what will they now do when they pledged to do four years?” “Anyone who controls all the monies of the International Oil Companies, two percent of their budgets plus budgets of nine states and you do not have a kilometre of road to show.
Even the village you come from, there is no transformer, and so what magic will you perform? He added.
He dismissed the one- term promise by the APC promoters, saying: “In four years, how many investors will you talk to? So how many of those factories will arrive for our people to work in?” He boasted that his administration can show a lot that he has done in the state in the last three years, and it would be appropriate to also have a glimpse of the programmes and ideas they are bringing to the table.
“It is not a time for storytelling.
Let us look at whether people are coming to loot the little that we have or they are actually coming to add value,” he said.