THE deputy governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Cross River State, Ntufam Ekpo Okon, has described the state as sick, saying there is urgent need for its revival. Okon, who would be running with the governorship candidate, Senator John Owan-Enoh, told some reporters in Calabar that there was a complete absence of governance in the state. “If you go to any government office today, you will realize that there is no work that is going on. Nothing is happening. The materials to get work done are never there. You go to the governor’s office, when the governor is not in office and there is disruption in public power supply, then there won’t be electricity. So those who are in the offices have no business coming to work when the governor is not in town. What kind of administration is that? That is the situation across the entire state.
There is no administration. “Cross River has never reduced to this level. And you find people who ought to be leaders reduce themselves to the lowest levels of sycophancy. It is very unfortunate. The issue of who will become the next governor of Cross River State, first is in the hand of God. The next one is the capacity of the person. A Cross Riverian, who wants to be the next governor, must prepare himself and create the required linkages across the state and he would win. We don’t have to sit down for a Governor Ayade, who will carry it like a crown and give to the next person.
“I believe that Cross River State is sick. I believe that we have to deliberately work hard to revive Cross River. I have offered myself as part of the medical team. We find it expedient that if we must rescue Cross River, all hands must be on deck. And under such circumstance you must allow the ideal of rescue to drive you and as far as I am concerned, I must give it to John Owan- Enoh. You must assess him from the offices he has held and the way he has stood out. He has capacity. You cannot deny that fact.”
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