GOVERNOR UDOM EMMANUEL GARNERS MORE SUPPORT FROM URUAN.

GOVERNOR UDOM EMMANUEL GARNERS MORE SUPPORT FROM URUAN.



The appointment of Mr Okon Okon from Ekpene Ibia in Uruan local government area as Chairman board of Internal revenue has endeared Mr Udom Gabriel Emmanuel more to the good people of Uruan local government Area.

This appointment has been long awaited with great expectation. Initially well meaning sons and daughters of Uruan had envisaged the possibility of Mr Okon Okon being sworn as a Commissioner but as destiny would have it he is now Chairman board of Internal revenue,a board of no mean repute.


Mr Okon Okon is a seasoned financial expert with years of experience in private sector. He remains one of the newly injected professionals in the Akwa Ibom project for optimum administrative result that should aid in the Industrialization drive of  Mr Udom Emmanuel led Administration. His appointment sure depicts a square peg in a square hole.




At the reception held in his country home after being sworn in,Uruan people with unreserved ecstasy trooped in willingly to celebrate with their son in appreciation of a promise  keeping governor; Mr Udom Emmanuel.




The appointment of Mr Okon Okon certainly has unified Uruan to an extend worth applauding the Wisdom of the States helmsman. Mr Okon Okon is more of a Professional than a Politician and is yet to be encumbered with the diverging idiosyncratic challenges that saliently nibbles at the core fabric of Uruan people.


At his reception, all political zones were highly represented with dignitaries. The hitherto tensed ambiance usually felt vacillated,past Political Office holders,Chairmen of Council,Zonal Political leaders made their way to the venue even under the rain as a show of gratitude to Mr Udom Emmanuel for finding their Son Worthy of trust to man such a demanding Commission that the whole state looks upon as the engine room of timely and effective productivity.



Mr Okon Okon in his speech thanked Mr Udom Emmanuel for keeping faith with Uruan people through the the creation of the South East Clan, major road construction projects that links Uruan and its environs,he appreciated the Governor for the ranch at Adadia and the world class housing Estate at Ibiaku, he could not hold back his joy for the Akwa Prime hatchery at Mbiaya Uruan which has transformed Uruan to a busy business location that welcomes further development. Projecting further, Mr Okon enjoined Uruan Indigenes to get ready to return Mr Udom Emmanuel to the hill top mansion come 2019 based on his magnanimity towards Uruan Nation within 24 months in office as Governor.



Nonetheless, its worthy of note,that Uruan has four clans/zones and three of these clans have either an SA to the Governor or a political appointee who links the grassroot to the centre except the south south clan/zone. Its generally believed that the south south is left out for constant ravishing by APC because of none inclusion in governance,but we from the south south in particular and Uruan as a whole having received with joy the appointment of our brother are optimistic that the south south will soon be remembered has God makes all things beautiful in His time.



Present at the Reception from Uruan were the Political leader of Uruan; Obong Prince Ekpe Atakpo,The Transition Chairman; Dr Edwin Okon,The Coordinator of SAs to the Governor Grassroot Mobilization and Political groups and Immediate past Chairman of Uruan; Mr Anthony Jude Akan,A former Chairman Uruan LGA; Dr Eventus Edem,Zonal leaders,Stakeholders,Uruan PDP Chapter Chairman and executive, PDP ward Chairmen and Executives,Students,Youth and women groups.



Mr Udom Emmanuel has been very strategic in his inclusiveness approach towards Uruan local government area and is sure to make a home run with votes from Uruan Nation come 2019.





® Micheal Joseph Okon writes from Ituk Mbang Village, Uruan LGA.

PDP faults Buhari’s Easter message, says Jonathan handed over a single digit inflation rate"

PDP faults Buhari’s Easter message, says Jonathan handed over a single digit inflation rate"

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),Sunday charged the Nigeria Intelligence Agency (NIA) and other security agencies in the nation to desist from partisan politics.

Reacting to the controversy surrounding the over $43 million found in a house in Ikoyi, Lagos, the party faulted the reported claim of the NIA that it owned the huge amount in various denominations, kept in a private residence.

According to the party, the claim by the security agency that it owned such funds in a private house was “a bad comedy” by the ruling party.

It said in a statement by Prince Dayo Adeyeye, National Publicity Secretary, (PDP- NCC), in Abuja , Sunday, “The latest drama in town is the circus show of the discovery of huge sums of money of various currencies and denominations on daily basis without any trace of the owners . The most absurd of this charade

is the macabre dance on the so called $43,449,947, £27,800 and N23,218,000 purportedly recovered at an apartment in Osborne Street, Ikoyi, Lagos.

“The Government is at the crossroad as the Whistle-blower and the EFCC are now shying away from telling Nigerians who owned the monies because undeniable evidence links the monies to the proceeds from the sale of Turbines by the former Governor of Rivers State and now Minister of Transport, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi. It has also been revealed that part of that proceeds was used by Mr. Amaechi to prosecute the campaigns of the APC in 2015.

“The claim by the Director-General of the Nigeria Intelligence Agency (NIA) that the agency owns the stolen money “found” in a private residence is another bad comedy by this failed APC Administration. We are therefore warning all agencies of government in the Country to excuse itself from partisan politics to forestall individuals in government manipulating their operations especially, a sensitive agency like the NIA and thereby leading the Nation into a Gestapo State that it’s fast drifting into.

The PDP faulted the claim of President Muhammadu Buhari in his Easter message, that he has worked hard to meet the expectations of Nigerians in the last two years.

The opposition party said that the present administration had made living more difficult for Nigerians, as the economy had worsen from a single digit inflation rate to the current 17. 26 per cent.

According to the party, “We read with rude shock and utter dismay, the President Muhammadu Buhari’s Easter Message to Nigerians and of particular interest is the Paragraph that said, “In the almost two years of this administration, we have worked hard to meet the expectations of Nigerians by improving security, especially in the North-East, sustaining the campaign against corruption and have taken steps to revitalize the economy”. Really?

“These comments from Mr. President are to say the least untrue and an insult to the intelligence of Nigerians who have been at the receiving end of his government’s mismanagement in the last two years.

“We cannot end this analysis without mentioning the comatose state of our economy in the last two years of this APC Administration. The immediate past PDP Government of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan grew Nigeria’s GDP from $270.5 billion in 2009, and handed over a Nigeria that had grown to become the fastest growing and largest economy in Africa and the 24th largest economy in the World, with a GDP of $574 billion.

“In May 2015, the PDP also handed over a single digit inflation rate but today, Inflation Rate in Nigeria is at a double digit of 17.26%.

The Recession we are experiencing today in the Country is as a result of the failure of the APC led Administration to properly manage our economy. The Buhari Government is indeed clueless and had no economic plan until March 2017 when it launched the so called Recovery Plan. The economy is at a standstill.

“Major infrastructural development that began with the previous administrations of the PDP have been abandoned. Power Generation dwindled from over 5,000MW in 2015 to the present all time low of less than 2,000MW. The only project of note that this government has ever commissioned is the Abuja- Kaduna railroad which was 99 percent completed by the PDP administration.

“Against this backdrop and more, we are at a loss in reconciling President Muhammadu Buhari’s Easter message that he has met the expectations of Nigerians to the grim reality we have painted above.

There is nothing to show by the APC led Government and we challenge the President and his team to articulate the two years achievement of this Government point by point and let Nigerians compare with previous PDP administrations.

On the anti-Corruption war, PDP said, “The War on corruption like other policies and programnmes of the

Buhari led APC Administration has failed as well. As we have mentioned in our previous statements, any war on corruption that is selective and targeted at humiliating only leaders and other members of the opposition is a total failure.

“The entire anti-corruption war of the APC since inception is just in the media with only one conviction. Many of the Cases in Courts have been set aside and suspects discharged and acquitted while others are in EFCC and DSS detention centers without trial against their fundamental human rights as enshrined in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“Nigerians may also recall the several allegations of corruption made against prominent APC members that the Anti-graft Agency has not attended to. The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime

Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu has been rejected twice by the Nigerian Senate because of damning corruption allegations against him made by another agency of government .

“The same with the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, the Secretary to the Government of the

Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal and a host of other government officials against whom very serious allegations have been made. None of them have been subjected to the usual interrogations and investigation.”