Happening live in Uyo is the Heroic welcome and reception for Obong Victor Attah by the Ibibios at Asan Ibibio.

Obong Attah is the father of modern Akwa Ibom. He drew the master plan of the state and this includes infrastructural planning, economic master plan and technological development. He is known for Championing the abrogation of the onshore/offshore dichotomy which has now made Akwa Ibom the highest revenue earner from the Federal Government of Nigeria which has translated in the development of the State today.

Obong Victor Bassey Attah (born 20 November 1938) was governor of Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP).

Obong Victor Attah was born on November 20, 1938. He completed post-primary education in 1956. He gained a degree from Leeds College of Art and a post graduate diploma in Building Science from Liverpool University in 1965. He won the scholarship to study at Columbia University in New York, where he obtained an MA in Advanced Architectural Design and Planning. He also attended the Kennedy Graduate School of Governance at Harvard University. After completing his education, he practiced as an architect in the Caribbean, New York, and Nigeria. He served as the National President of the Nigerian Institute of Architects.

Victor Attah was elected governor of Akwa Ibom in 1999 on the PDP platform, and was reelected 2003. He was elected Chairman of the Forum of the 36 Governors of Nigeria in 2003.

Obong Attah ran for the 2007 presidential nomination of the Peoples Democratic Party in 2007, but later withdrew.

Note: This is not an Attah vs Akpabio thread because there is no basis for comparison. Thank you!

Those at the venue please post pictures here. Thank You!

Moderators, this should be on the front page... Attah did us proud at the conference!

I LOVE THIS MAN, ETE NA YOU BE OGA

Mrdifferent: Moderators, this should be on the front page... Attah did us proud at the conference!

You want this to be on fp, you should have put a more elaborate coverage of the event and also append a source.