"Nigeria being Africa's biggest Economy will never be sustained without an improved power supply to Businesses and Industries in the country. I trust that regular gas production and distribution is the pinnacle of this fit.
Tomorrow, God's willing, I will be commissioning the ground-breaking $1.8 billion Methanol Plant at Ibeno.
I will also inspect the dualization works on the Uyo-Ikot Ekpene-Aba federal Road, Inspect the first suspended bridge in the State and the 30,000 capacity Ibom International Stadium, Uyo, under construction.
These Projects will create jobs and more money into pockets of millions of Nigerians. This is the Nigeria of our dream" - President Goodluck Jonathan.
In a statement, Akwa Ibom state governor, Godswill Akpabio also said:
"Thursday, August 14, 2014 will provide Akwa Ibom State under the leadership of Chief Godswill Akpabio to show working to President Goodluck Jonathan as he comes visiting. The people of Akwa Ibom may have to be pardoned if they have probably lost count of the number of times that the Presidency has been hosted in the state, with President Jonathan, Dame Patience Jonathan and Vice President Namadi Sambo each having taken several turns in visiting the state.
It would be recalled that such presidential visits have previously been occasioned by the commissioning of new turnkey projects executed by the Akpabio administration, such as the Akwa Ibom International Airport, the flyovers, the e-library complex, ultramodern Governor’s lodge, new hospitals, international stadium to an ultramodern business and leisure resort, and numerous dual carriage expressways. Indeed Nigerians have come to believe in Akpabio’s Akwa Ibom.
As is usually the case during previous visits, President Goodluck Jonathan is billed to embark on the commissioning and inspection of completed and ongoing projects of the Akpabio administration. According to the schedule of the visit, the President will commission the gas processing facility complete with 69 kilometers pipeline at Uquo, in Esit Eket local government, constructed under a public-private partnership arrangement between Septa Energy and the Akwa Ibom State government.
The August visitor, who is paying a fourth official visit to the state, will also commission the Goodluck Boulevard on Ring Road III in Uyo and also perform the ground-breaking ceremony for a $1.5 billion Methanol Plant at the coastal community of Ibeno; inspect the dualization works on the Uyo-Ikot Ekpene-Aba Federal Road, undertaken by the state government; inspect the first suspended bridge in the State currently under construction in Abak and thereafter inspect the 30,000 capacity Ibom International Stadium, Uyo, for which he laid the foundation stone in October 2012."
from www.elombah.com

May God bless the president, the Governor and the people of Akwa ibom state