POMP & CARNIVAL IN A’IBOM PDP AS GOV ENO VISITS, PLEDGES TO DEEPEN PDP TAPROOTS IN AKS

… We are proud of you – PDP Chair, Stakeholders

A great display of celebration rocked Atan Offot House, the Akwa Ibom State secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as Governor Umo Eno paid the traditional new year visit to the party barely 24 hours after the Supreme Court affirmed his victory at the March 2023 gubernatorial polls.

Governor Eno who was welcomed by a mass of party leaders and members joined in the celebration, expressing gratitude to God for the victory at the Supreme Court and the party faithful for being unwavering in supporting the cause of PDP in Akwa Ibom State.

“I have come here to join our party to celebrate the new year. This is my very first visit as Governor to come and celebrate with the party. This is both a new year visit and a victory celebration.”

“By the special grace of God, the Supreme Court has affirmed our governorship victory; affirmed your votes and affirmed your support.”

“I thank my political father and leader, Mr Udom Emmanuel for his many good counsels. I thank our supporters across political parties for allowing peace to reign in this state. I thank our party chairman and all the state Executive Committee members, all unit leaders and members, for your resilience and strength of character.”

“We will continue to run the affairs of this state with integrity and character. We will continue to ensure that we work with everybody across party lines to build this state and to keep our party strong.”

Re-emphasizing on his administration’s resolve to improve the economic fortunes of people in Akwa Ibom, Gov Eno stated that various programmes are underway to support Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) including the empowerment of business owners through Ibom Leadership and Entrepreneural Development Centre which currently has 400 successful trainees to empower.

“We are now ready to empower 400 people who have gone through Ibom LED training. Next month by the grace of God, the Bank of Industry will open their office in Uyo. We are going to support SMEs and with the coming of the Bank Industry, we are planning to offer single digit interest loans to SMEs in the state.”

The State Chairman of PDP, Rt. Hon (Elder) Aniekan Akpan, while welcoming the Governor, congratulated him on the affirmation of his victory by the Supreme Court, adding that the party in the state is proud of him particularly his strides so far since being inaugurated into office.

“As a party, we are happy to be on the right side of our democratic history for 24 years. A history of an unbroken string of victories for our great party in the state.”

“We are glad to see that in just seven months, you have expanded the frontiers of development across various sectors of the state. If you could achieve the much that you have in seven months, we can only imagine how it will be in four years”, he said.

On their part, the Campaigns Director General, Chief Assam Assam, SAN, and the National Chairman of Maintain Peace Movement (MPM), Barr Emmanuel Enoidem, SAN, expressed confidence that with the final judgement by the Supreme Court, issues of politics will make way for governance and state building to thrive.

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