Calabar – Gov. Ben Ayade of Cross River,
on Saturday night in Calabar, splashed
one million naira on each of the 11
families that contested at the maiden
edition of Silverbird’s ‘Mother and
Daughter Pageant’. The pageant held at the Cross River
International Conference Centre,
Calabar, involved 11 teams, each made
up of a mother and daughter. Also, the team of Mrs Angela Nwangwa
and her daughter, Gift, apart from the
governor’s largesse, got N2 million cash
and a family trip to Dubai as overall
winner of the contest. The duo of Mrs Omo Alake and her
daughter, Ife, emerged the first
runner-up, while Mrs Thelma Ukpai and
her daughter, Mercy, were placed
second runner-up. According to the governor, a contest
which celebrates family values should
have no loser, as it will affect the
confidence children have in their
mothers. Ayade extolled the qualities of the
family, describing the event as a “life
touching’’ show. He said, “An event like this shows that
culture has not departed from us. “Anything involving mothers make me
very emotional, because I remember
the struggles of my mother while I was
growing up and how her sickness
started when we were becoming
successful. “This event should have been for the
mother and her son, because sons feel
very strongly for their mothers more
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