By Freshgist
The Executive Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Pastor Umo Eno, has applauded Nigerian President, His Excellency, Bola Ahmed Tinubu for running an Inclusive governance in His Administration.
Speaking during Media Parley on Friday at the banquet hall, Governor Eno, who returned to the state from the trip he made to the 78th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York, USA, disclosed that his participation at the UN summit afforded him an exposure to learn and also used the medium to market the state.
He explained that President Tinibu's gesture of including state governors across party lines to the just concluded UN summit in New York, USA, has brought about renewed approach to governance in the country.
He also appraised President Tinibu's for his unity and fatherly approach to governance shows understanding and experience in politics. Added that the warm reception accorded guests for the Summit was to strengthen the unity and faith in the National Assembly as Nigeria’s symbol of democracy.
According to Governor Umo Eno:
"This President is a father. He has been in politics long enough. He understands the dynamics that he has to put everyone together; that we must come to the table; we may be children from different mothers, but same father and it’s the responsibility of the father to bring everyone together.
“Let me thank Mr President for the opportunity he has afforded me, the exposure to learn as well as market Akwa Ibom. I don’t take this for granted.”
On his interactions with potential investors, Governor Eno said: “We are hopeful and happy with what we have seen and heard, and we are hopeful.We have made some contacts that we will follow up on the need and we trust God to help us bring investors back home.”
Acknowledging his confidence in the leadership model of the President Tinubu led-Federal Government, Gov Eno declared that the inclusivity model is already yielding positive results for his administration.
Reacting to threats that his inability to share money to stakeholders in the state structures may work against his chances of second term, Governor Eno declared that he would be comfortable serving an impactful single term than a useless two terms in office.
He expressed satisfaction that he prefers to invest in the 7.9 million Akwa Ibom people than dashing money to few stakeholders
“We are trying to ensure that my recurrent expenditure does not run at per with my capital expenditure. Whatever we save is to be put back in the rural areas. Every N500 million I save would give me a school, would give me a hospital.
“I prefer a good first term than a useless two-terms. It is only when you account for four years well, that you would be asked to go again. I’ll rather put money in rural communities. My job is to ensure that the 7.9million people are satisfied. I discovered that almost everybody is waiting on government. I am not perfect, but i promise that I will not deliberately launch this state into something we would regret. We will do our best,” he assured.
On his plans to tour around the rural areas in the state, Governor Eno said; “We are working with the 31 Local Government chairmen on agricultural development. We will be using not less than 50 hectares of land per Local Government Area for farming.
Speaking on Infrastructure development in the state, the Governor said “the challenge before us is to maintain the existing infrastructure. We lack maintenance culture. That is why we seek to establish an asset management agency to help in maintenance of our assets. We build new ones when we have to.”
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