..as Charles Udoh grades internal roads in the community.

The Honourable Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Sir Charles Udoh has facilitated the grading of roads in his community, Obio Offot in Uyo.

The intervention project which was flagged off on Monday January 29, by the Honourable Commissioner, who was represented by Personal Assistant to the Governor, Paul Sylvester, said the grading project is in line with the rural development plan of Gov Umo Eno’s ARISE Agenda, aimed at providing necessary welfare programmes and packages for rural communities to meet their needs.

Sir Udoh added that the road grading project reflects his determination to prioritize the needs of his people, fostering social and economic activities and fulfilling his responsibilities as a public servant.

Some of the graded roads are, Nung Efa Street, Chief Raphael Usoro Street and its environs, Akpan Mkpe Street, Ekpe Street and its environs, Nung Mkpe-Nung Akpan Road, fountain of Hope Street, Nung Oyo Street, Offot Ukwa Road etc.

Commending the Commissioner’s gesture, some leaders in the area remarked that Udoh is a community minded person who is interested in contributing to the wellbeing of his people, holding that Obio Offot is grateful for such good deed.

Chief Okon Asuquo who observed that Sir Charles Udoh has done well which is why he will continue to enjoy necessary support from his people in order to succeed in his position of responsibility, joined voice with Sir Emmanuel Udoh, Hon. Solomon Udosen, Akparawa Itohoimo Udosen, Mr. Ubong Usoro, Mr. Nsikak Uko, Mr Ukeme Idaha, Mr Ubong Hanson amongst others, to pray for blessings the commissioner.

Governor-elect of Akwa Ibom State, Pastor Umo Eno has commended Governor Udom Emmanuel over the numerous development projects in the state which he said were innumerable.

In a vote of thanks at the commissioning of 17.95KM Anua – Mbak – Ishiet road with spurs and 1.65KM outfall drain in Uyo and Uruan Local Government Areas, he promised to further on the development strides of his soon-to-be predecessor.

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Media Unit
04/05/2023

As the gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom State, Pastor Umo Eno continues to enjoy royal blessings across the state, the Paramount Ruler of Ini Local Government Area, HRM Edidem Udo-ette Edon has prayed to God to grant him favour and victory at the 2023 polls.

The monarch delivered the prayers at his palace in Nkari, when the PDP/Pastor Umo Eno and Akon Eyakenyi campaign team visited him before proceeding to Odoro Ikpe, the local government council field for the campaign rally.

He reminded the governorship hopeful that the massive support he has been enjoying is basically due to his God – fearing and humble disposition, advising him to continue to look up to God as the Alpha and Omega.

The Royal father commended Governor Udom Emmanuel for his good works in the area and urged Pastor Eno to follow his footsteps by delivering impactful, people-centred projects.

According to him, “Governor Udom Emmanuel loves Ini, so he has done well for us. If he has not, I would have told you. So follow the footsteps of Governor Udom Emmanuel.”

Earlier in his remarks, Pastor Umo Eno who appreciated the monarch and the people of Ini for their warm reception, said Ini is the food basket of Akwa Ibom State.

He noted that though rice is produced in the area, much more will be done to get more food from Ini.

Pastor Eno who was delighted at the vast land in the area, said the ARISE Agenda will have full expression in Ini in the areas of Agricultural revolution, Rural development, Infrastructural Maintenance, Security Management and Educational Advancement.

He therefore urged the people of Ini LGA to support and vote for PDP at all levels in line with the 5 over 5 philosophy.

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… We’ll Deliver 5 over 5 for PDP – LG Chairman

In line with his development blueprint codenamed the ARISE Agenda, governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom State, Pastor Umo Eno has promised to develop the popular Ibeno Beach to boost tourism in the state.

Pastor Umo Eno also promised to complete the Ibeno – Eket Road with street lights, as well as provide canning and preservation facilities to encourage the fishing business.

The governorship hopeful made these promises when the PDP/Pastor Umo Eno and Akon Eyakenyi campaign train berthed at Ukpenekang, the Ibeno Local Government Secretariat.

He noted that Ibeno is home for him, having stayed and done business in the area for many years, adding that Ibeno will benefit from big signature projects when elected into office in 2023.

According to him, “The story of my life cannot be complete without Ibeno having a chapter. Even though I have lived in Eket for almost 30 years, I have done business in Ibeno for almost 30 years too. Ibeno has been the capital base where we have all done businesses so I’m one of you, I’m part of you. I know Ibeno, I have families in Ibeno.

“There are things Ibeno people need not tell me because I’m an insider. I know what you want. I know the things that we need to do in Ibeno. Year after year, I’ve driven through this road, into the terminal to do business.

“When we started our church ministry, after Eket, the first branch we established was in Ibeno and it’s still standing till today. That goes a long way to show you how much I love Ibeno people. Most of you have become members of our family, our church family, our physical family. I understand Ibeno and we will not leave Ibeno untouched,” he said.

Speaking further, the governorship hopeful who in his usual manner started by exciting the mammoth crowd through his spiritually-stimulating songs said, “I will remember from where I began,we will leave signature of projects in Ibeno. We will leave the signature of completing the Eket – Ibeno road with streetlights in Ibeno. Akwa Ibom has 29 kilometers of shoreline and Ibeno is one of them. This Ibeno Beach will be developed to boost the tourism and create jobs for the people of this area. When I become governor, in 2023, through your votes, we will develop this Ibeno Beach to fulfill its full potentials.

“I know that Ibeno is a fishing community. As part of our strategic plan, we will form you into cooperatives, we’ll give you fishing boats, and also provide security. We will ensure that you have preservation facilities to preserve your fish. We will ensure that agriculture, fish farming, and other means of livelihood that you presentedly have will be supported so that you can make the best out of it. I’d like to assure you, that you are about to witness a great turn around in Ibeno from 2023” he added.

Earlier, the Chairman of Ibeno Local Government Area, High Chief Williams Mkpah said Ibeno has always been a PDP stronghold, adding that Ibeno will deliver 5 over 5 for the party.

Also speaking, the state party chairman, Elder Aniekan Akpan and the Director General of campaigns, Ambassador Assam Assam SAN applauded Ibeno people for always supporting the party and urged them to remain steadfast during th3 2023 general elections.

In his remarks, Governor Udom Emmanuel stated that leadership requires capacity, competence, and character adding that Pastor Umo Eno has rich experience which, when elected into office, will further on the developement strides in the state.

Governor Emmanuel who was represented by his wife, Dr. (Mrs) Martha stressed that there is no other party in Ibeno, Akwa Ibom or the country that truely cares about the welfare of the people other than the PDP.

He therefore urged the people of the area to vote for PDP to rescue Nigeria, and further the peace, security and development in the state.

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“It is in the character of very few men to honour without envy for a friend who has prospered” -Aeschylus

By Substance Udo-nature

Akparawa Ephraim InyangEyen, Chief of Staff (Cos) to Governor Udom Emmanuel, has proven to be the proverbial cat with many lives. He knows how to bite the bullet, to say the least.

The fact is that his foes and fiends, in their fun and folly, have turned into a sport the act of putting words in his mouths, poaching his entitled and privileged private and public territories merely to disparage, possibly distract, or mischievously cause collateral damages to his name, using media and non-media apparatuses and apparatchiks.

As if to play the devil’s advocate, let me say that, insofar as Inyangeyen remains critical to the success of the Completion Agenda; still doing what he is doing the way he is doing; still keeping his personal ideologies; he remains on the hit list of critics. We are only waiting for the final series of worst episodes of the script.

I was at an event recently, sitting by chance close to one of the big names in Akwa Ibom State, his identity which anonymity forbids me to disclose.

Unplanned, it happened that we had a brief lively conversation across some trendy and topical issues of the week, while waiting for the event to start in the annoying tradition of “African time”.

There was no telling that the man is rooted in many matters of special and general interest. Without flaunting his depth and station, the man who apparently talked like someone politics has not blinded, explored with modest authority and dexterity every matter that propped up between us.

A little into the discussion, a call came through his phone. It was instantly obvious by his facial expression that he didn’t want to answer to the call although it was even more obvious he knew the caller.

The call came again, and again, and again, and would have come again in that disturbing frequency if he didn’t pick it, with suppressed grumbling, and then excused me, stepping out of the hall.

Not long, he returned, with residues of worry and rebuke he could not completely erase from his face. “I can’t just explain why we are like this in this State just because we don’t like somebody or are jealous for whatever reason”, he soliloquised with a dismissive sigh as he sunk back into his seat. I successfully conquered the pressing urge to immediately identify and sympathize with his feelings.

“I’m sorry my brother”, the man rather told me with a courtesy that confirmed his cultured civility, “that call was from a journalist. They write things they are not sure of or are simply paid to do by some funny characters; and even with your reaction, they still would go ahead to write nonsense in a way you begin to wonder”.

I endorsed his position with a contemplative nod. He then continued:

“What is really so big about this 2023? There was a screaming headline in a paper this morning that was utterly untrue and disparaging about Mr. Ephraim Inyangeyen. I say so because I was at the same event he is alleged to have made some statements. The man never at any point said those things he is quoted to have said. I have no personal relationship with the Chief of Staff, but the truth must be told”.

It was nice to see someone defend somebody like that in his absence. Only few persons enjoy such goodwill!

But as time and events have shown, these things can only bemuse or surprise the credulous or a total stranger in town. Those who have been around are already used to them, like Inyangeyen himself has.

I personally was aware of the said imaginative and sensational story about Inyangeyen and 2023 that the man was referring to in one of the local tabloids of that day, and even the week before.

But it couldn’t have been a surprise to me. In the past six years, there hasn’t been any edition of some newspapers that Inyangeyen did not say something he never said or did something he never did.

These jobbers are increasingly in the habit of putting up stunts to make Inyangeyen’s life appear desperately ambitious and untrustworthy in the eyes of the public and those who love him.

Going by record of serial attacks on him by leftist media, it could be said that the worst of tactics that may not yet have been tried on him must be those to be invented tomorrow as the onslaught is likely to gear towards the climax in days ahead.

Three apparent things this may have revealed is that, one, they are both envious of Inyangeyen’s demonstrable capacities and worried about what greater opportunities his clean credentials may fetch him tomorrow. In that regard, Inyangeyen becomes a constant threat in his innocence.

Two, they want to cause distrust and generate suspicions in quarters that value Inyangeyen’s character, abilities and services. The third reason is that blackmailers have mistaken for weakness Inyangeyen’s diplomatic silence and refusal to be drawn into fits and spells of altercations and recriminations, which would have provided incentives for them to be madder.

But these are all old tactics that never worked. One might only worry, if there was any need to worry, about how bad the trend may become as we move forward towards 2023. Inyangeyen appears to have been marked for the worst campaign of calumny.

Ordinarily, it smacks of sheer wickedness to persecute a man in this way, without regards to his entitled personal liberty and preferences, and of course, the right to live.

Judged by the momentum of the moment in a State majority see politics as a means to an end, the extent to which blackmail and propaganda driven by media gangsterism shall be deployed in the build-up to the 2023 elections cannot presently be ascertained. But every stroke of the signals is ominous.

For Inyangeyen, there is nothing imaginative and ridiculous that has not been heard, watched or read about him. Even when he was not there, he is said to have been seen there; even when he was there, he is said not to have been seen there; in his silence, he is quoted; when he has imperative reasons to speak, he is misconstrued and misquoted.

Lord Chesterfield it was who said that “People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority”. Could this be how Inyangeyen’s excellent stewardship and accrueable blessings have made some persons feel?