A’Ibom monarch drums help for PDP gov candidate

The normal ruler of Obot Akara Native Authorities Space of Akwa Ibom State, Okuku Umo, has mentioned members of his group will reciprocate Governor Udom Emmanuel’s goodwill to them by voting for the Peoples Democratic Occasion governorship candidate within the 2023 elections.

He mentioned although his folks (Obot Akara) didn’t know the PDP governorship candidate, Umo Eno that a lot, they’d rely on the goodwill of the governor to vote for him throughout the elections.

The royal father spoke on Friday at his palace whereas fielding questions from newsmen.

He lauded Governor Emmanuel for his rural transformation programmes, which he mentioned had facilitated commerce and engendered financial growth among the many rural dwellers, including that his folks would stay grateful to the PDP-led administration within the state.

The tasks embrace the finished Nto Edino-Ekwerazu highway with two bridges, ongoing Nto Ide-Ikot Amba-Ikot Osom Street linking Ikot Umo Essien-Ikot Inemme-Aba Street, the 4.2km Abak Ifia – Ikpe Mbak Eyop-Ikot Abia Osom-Nko Street challenge, 6.36km Nko-Ikot Abia Osom-Ikpe Mbak Eyop Street and several other others.

The monarch mentioned, “Governor Emmanuel has executed a whole lot of issues however we’ll significantly commend him for Ekwerazu highway and bridges. Successive authorities’s had promised to repair that highway, however failed to take action. We will’t rely the variety of lives misplaced on that bridge.

“We is not going to stop to thank the governor that has given us that bridge and the highway. That is one challenge I cannot stop to say ‘God bless him.’

“By serving to to attach Obot-Akara with different components of the state, myself and the whole Ikpe mbak Eyop and Obot Akara folks as a complete will vote Umo Eno.

“This for us will likely be like a switch of affection for the bridge and different quite a few tasks the governor has supplied for us in Obot Akara.

“You could not perceive what these roads, particularly the Nto Edino bridge means for us. We have now misplaced so many lives. Even when that was all of the challenge the governor did, we’d have been proud of him. However he has gone forward to construct one other bridge at Ikot Amba and he’s doing different roads right here. We pray each day concerning the governor that God ought to bless him.”