Akwa-Ibom State governor, Udom Emmanuel, was in Lagos recently where he fielded questions on various issues of national interest with some journalists. BOLA BADMUS, who was there, brings excerpts:
How would you assess your administration in the past three years that you have been in office?
So far, I can say that we have done well. I will give myself an ‘A’ if I’m to rate myself as we have done very well as an opposition political party leading a state that has no Federal Government’s presence; not even a kilometre of road. As the largest oil producing state, there is not even a depot owned by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in Akwa Ibom State. The corporation doesn’t even have a kiosk as an office in the state and you can’t point to anything to show that the Federal Government has interest in Akwa Ibom, which is an oil producing state.
The belief is…
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