WHY I WANT TO BE GOVERNOR-BISHOPSAMUEL AKPAN I always find myself to be the chairman of the common people. I believe the cripple in the street is a necessary element in our society and somebody must provide for them; I am saying this philosophically. There is no way we will be able to run an economy like that of AKS without making sure you guarantee the involvement of the people by developing their capacities. What my governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio has done is absolutely unprecedented. He has, for the first time, proven that government can actually work for the people. He has created large scale infrastructuraldevelopment and I believe that he has given us, first and foremost, what we had wanted, to be able to justify total participation in collective economic drive. Part of my contributions to Akwa Ibom state will be to build the human capacity strongly and I will ensure that we allow them take the full benefits of infrastructuraldevelopment and that is the vision I have and the weak in our system can be turned into strength; the excluded can be made to participate and therefore, the justification for what his Excellency has done today shall be a bigger glory for him tomorrow because he has opened a channel of inclusiveness for the women, youth, etc and we still have a lot that we need to bring onboard. I am not just only looking at equitable presence in leadership; I believe the Eket senatorial district will even become an avenue of assessing the rest of the maritime world. WE shall open up the sector. We will also justifiably bring more industries and allow the industries not to be state driven; they should be people-orientedindustries, owned by the people. We would want to ensure that our private sector potentials are harnessed, whereby we can create employment for the unemployed graduates that are now running around the streets. AKWA IBOM BEYOND OIL Oil will only give us the initial take –off, but we should not lean on oil. We should be able to diversify our economy into other sectors. We should be able to develop the fertile lands into large scale mechanized agricultural and turn the raw materials thereof into small scale numerous industries that the private sector can jointly own and be satisfied, in terms of ownership so that the efficiency can be sustained. The truth is that; volume to volume of crude oil to palm oil, palm oil is lot more expensive; so, why do you abandon a much more expensive palm oil to cheaper crude oil? It is because you have allowed the other sectors to die. EDUCATION Education is unavoidably the strongest means of capacity building and because I have reckoned that the free and compulsory primary and secondary school levels that is being implemented at the moment is a step in the right direction; but we should also go into free, compulsory and qualitative education and I will ensure that education becomes free compulsory and qualitatively. REGRETS IN POLITICS Well, I don’t know why one will have regrets in living, because politics is a way and part of life. If you say you have regrets in politics, it means that you have regrets in living because there is no way you won’t find politics at all levels. Politics starts from the day you were born and ends the day you die. Nobody is completely exempted from politics. Everyone in politics must be able to bring his scorecards, just like death forces us to bring our scorecards at the end. APC REGISTRATION Well, it is a basic challenge of democracy and that will provoke a very highly skillful democracy. ADVICE Nigerians cannot be killing themselves for the purpose of excluding the other ones, therefore, let everyone participate freely, live and enjoy the privilege that God has granted us. Let us live together as one indivisible Nigeria.
Posted on: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 06:06:42 +0000
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