Okon People hail Governor-Elect * Pledge total support

Prof. Etie Ben Akpan, OKON political leader

The people of OKON in  Eket say they are  happy to identify with the victory of the Governor Elect Mr. Udom Emmanuel and his running mate Moses Ekpo. In a goodwill message made available to THE INK, the body said, ‘the Elders and Stakeholders of Okon Clan in Eket Local Government Area with ineffable thanks to God Almighty and joy in our hearts heartily congratulate our amiable Governor-Elect, Mr. Udom Gabriel Emmanuel on his resounding victory at the Akwa Ibom State Gubernatorial election held on Saturday, 11th April, 2015.’

In the same vein, we congratulate the Deputy Governor-Elect, Chief Moses Ekpo, the Senator Elect for Eket Senatorial District (Akwa Ibom South), Chief Effiong Nelson, Eket Federal Constituency Member Elect, Hon (Mrs.) Owoidighe Ekpoatai, and the indefatigable Member Elect for Eket State Constituency, Hon. David Lawrence Udofa on your victory at the polls. With your humble dispositions, accessibility and dynamism, we are assured of the delivery of positive and quality dividends of democracy to your districts and constituencies respectively.

Continuing further, OKON people maintained, ‘Your Excellency, it is a truism that the main ingredient of good leadership is good character and humility. These significant attributes you possess in abundance, consequent upon your good and sound religious and moral background.

Intellectually speaking, you are a man of enormous erudition. Career wise, you were a paragon of excellence and a doyen of the banking industry, who traversed the private sector like a colossus.

Like a gold fish, you had no hiding place, and it pleased the omniscient God to use the instrumentality of the People’s Democratic Party and our Executive Governor, Chief (Dr.) Godswill Obot Akpabio, CON, to seek you out and leapfrog you to bring your impeccable wealth of experience garnered over the years in the Private Sector to bear on the governance of Akwa Ibom State, with a humble beginning as the Secretary to the State Government.

Those of us with deep psychological insight and analytical minds discovered these exceptional attributes you are graciously endowed with early enough and decided to pitch our political tent with you. When by Divine providence, against the predictions of political pundits, you became the Gubernatorial Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party in Akwa Ibom State; the bookmakers never gave you a chance. Those of us who have absolute faith and belief in God and you, never wavered in the midst of the mounting conspiracy and so much furor generated by the belligerent opposition and their massive propaganda machinery deployed to smear the enviable reputation and integrity, you have toiled over the years to build.

The good Lord by His special and unlimited power and in His goodness made you the winner of the April 11, 2015 election.  We salute your doggedness, resilience and unusual restraint in those tempestuous and trying times.’
They further urged Udom Emmanuel to apply to himself diligently to the good governance of Akwa Ibom State, in the spirit of continuity and consolidation, and nor be distracted by the frivolous and irrelevant activities of the political tin gods.

And re-affirmed their belief in Udom’s ability to do things rightly and deliver further dividends of democracy to the good people of Akwa Ibom  State.