Gov. Emmanuel To APC: Join Me In Moving Akwa Ibom To Greater Heights

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Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State has extended a hand of fellowship to the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state following Wednesday’s Supreme Court judgment that upheld his election as governor.

In a radio broadcast to celebrate the verdict, Mr. Emmanuel urged the APC and its governorship candidate, Umana O. Umana, to join him in the task of bringing development to the state.

“I hereby call on our brothers and sisters from the other side of the political divide to close ranks and join me, in moving Akwa Ibom state to surpass superior performance and ensure development that is sustainable, impactful and expansive”, he said in the radio broadcast.

“We don’t have any other state to call ours except the great Akwa Abasi Ibom State”, Governor Emmanuel said, adding that, “The other side had a right to aspire to power, even though we don’t agree with their approach and mechanics”.

“Politics should not be used as a wedge issue to divide brothers and sisters, politics should not be an instrument that creates disharmony among an otherwise homogenous people, and we should resist the impulse to stoke ethnic fire among otherwise happy brothers and sisters.

“As I have always stated: political foes of today may be political allies tomorrow. We should be guided by this ennobling ideal”.

The governor said every political contest must produce a winner and a loser.

But he said that in this case, the people of Akwa Ibom state won “because in their reasoning, their fortunes would be better enhanced with a PDP government continuing its solid dispensation of democratic dividends that had in the past eight and half years, had transformed our state to a destination of choice”.

Governor Emmanuel said he was committed to providing exemplary leadership that will inspire the people of Akwa Ibom to greatness and called on the people to remain law abiding and shun acts that could cause public disaffection.

3 COMMENTS

  1. UDOM is right and Truthful, Only God in heaven knows the season why Akwa ibom peoples are Standing and make a support to our dear Governor. May God Almighty protects you for people of Akwa ibom state, Amen! It is well?