luvmijeje:


I'm use to seeing Nigeria so called leaders celebrating mediocrity but what was a little bit shocking was seeing 3 sitting African Presidents leaving their country to witness rubbish. They are jobless and obviously birds of the same feathers.

thomasthomas:
Probably no stadium has ever been commissioned with so much fanfare, and at such obviously stupendous cost, as the Akwa Ibom International Stadium, recently declared open by President Goodluck Jonathan in Uyo, the state capital. And possibly, none might ever be.

With three sitting, and at least one former, African Presidents (Nigeria, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire) in attendance, along with the National Chairman and other top officials of the People's Democratic Party, state governors, ministers, the cream of Nollywood, active and retired footballers, including Pele himself, international media personalities and sundry social (and political) climbers, Governor Godswill Akpabio clearly OUTDID himself with the sheer extravagance of the event. It seemed as if the man was hosting the opening ceremony of the finals of the World Cupitself! Or the Olympics.

The stadium and its noisy commissioning are part of the Akpabio style of governance; one he has consciously deployed from his first day in office: overpriced, showy projects that can be promoted in the noisiest possible manner as evidence of transformation to the gullible but which adds little or nothing to the lives of ordinary Akwa Ibom people. Does anyone remember the first-in-Africa underground pipe jacket drainage system or the last time Uyo failed to flood with just few minutes of rainfall? Besides the president said it at the commissioning of the stadium that there is no flood again in Uyo. A laughable and a clueless talk from the president. How about the e-library, the most expensive cyber cafe in the world which, as this is written has not worked as advertised for even one day. A trip to the place on week days shows there is no light and the reading areas are always dark and hot.

Why would a government that has so far failed in seven years of trying to complete a hospital project, expend so much of its time, energy and people's scarce resources, on a one day stadium commissioning event costing N3.5bn of tax payers money. In Uyo the state capital, there is no general hospital worth the name and the said hospital project is not for the people of Uyo but to serve the purpose of the so-called 'medical tourism'.

Why should it take seven years to build the specialist hospital in Itam, Akpabio's very own first major project? Why is it that so far, its advertised cost of 37 billion Naira, the Tropicana entertainment complex is yet to be completed. Will it ever be completed? Why is the government subsidizing the cinema part of the complex; paying Silverbird to run the place at less than the going commercial rate that it charges in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja? Can any sane man defend the fact that in a poor yet very rich place like Akwa Ibom, the achievement of the basic MDGs is still a dream, yet the state government is subsidizing cinema entrance tickets.

Back to the stadium, comparatively, The bird's nest in China has a capacity for 91, 000 spectators and boasts of 140 5 star executive suites. But more importantly, it costs the Chinese government and taxpayers the total sum of 423 million USD or equivalent of 70 billion Naira to build the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing.

In Akwa Ibom State, the 'transformational' government of Godswill Akpabio unabashedly used about 480 million USD or approximately 80 million Naira of the commonwealth of Akwa Ibom people to construct a less-than 40, 000 capacity stadium . The Akwa Ibom stadium does not have many of the hi-tech quality facilities that the Chinese Bird's Nest Stadium has and there isn't a single executive suite!

Godswill Akpabio can fool some of the people, including President Jonathan some, or even most, of the time but he cannot fool all of us, forever. Someday, somehow, the truth will be out!

Credit: Efe-Ndutum

Bad Belle dey run stomach!

$12.5 billion that Babangida stole could give Nigeria 37 of this stadium.
$16 billion dollars Obasanjo stole could have given the whole West Africa 40 of this stadium
$7 billion dollars Abacha stole could have given Nigeria 17 of this stadium.

Akpabio chose to use the money to develop his state rather than steal it as you would prefer.

OreMI22:


[size=14pt]Bad Belle dey run stomach!
$12.5 billion that Babangida stole could give Nigeria 37 of this stadium.
$16 billion dollars Obasanjo stole could have given the whole West Africa 40 of this stadium
$7 billion dollars Abacha stole could have given Nigeria 17 of this stadium.

Akpabio chose to use the money to develop his state rather than steal it as you would prefer.[/size]

arresa:
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Stop distracting with other people, the topic is about Akpabio and the people you listed are not public officials today and not even the governors of spent broke Akwa Ibom. Start your own thread about the people you listed and have a good time discussing them.

jazzydee:

The topic is about APC trying to rubbish A star gov. Akpabio, fools like you should be ashamed of yourself. Thank you Akpabio for helping to move Nigeria and west Africa Forward by delivering world class infrastructures while APC are nothing but rumor mongers Blackmailers and propagandist.

arresa:
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1. This is how you ignorant people fail WAEC. The thread remains about Akpabio. Only unintelligent people with lack of anything sensible to contribute leaves topic to latch on to irrelevant nonsense..

2. If you are going to defend the crook, at least list the so called world class projects? Are they hospitals that he didn't build, are they schools that he didn't build or one football field = world class projects..

3. You mind telling us why he ported his own family to Lagos/APC state instead of keeping them in his transformed world class infrastructure Akwa Ibom?


Please keep quiet...

jazzydee:


Go and find a job, Being an internet goon for APC is not sustainable. On pg 2 of this thread, Lagos owes the highest debt in the country, what have they done with the debt? finance tinubu medical treatment abroad and commission 8MW power plant for the so claimed "20 million people". Fashola is the bigger fraud! you wont see that because you are paid to post. Yeye dey smell.

arresa:
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Ode, the 8MW plant guarantees uninterrupted powers supplies to hospitals, schools, roads, bridges and state institutions.

How many hospitals or any structure in Akwa Ibom gets uninterrupted power supply or even any in Nigeria? Oh, I forgot the incompetent clown and crook the not build any hospital so no hospital to power 24/7....

You clowns just blab 8MW all over the place with zero understanding per their strategic and specific importance and use..

Losers...

jazzydee:

fool, 8mw generator for 20million people of what use is that? thats the kind of infrastructure that APC is providing Useless set of people.!

thomasthomas:
Akwa Ibom Budget

2011 - N287.4bn

2012 - N397.1 bn

2013 - N470.1 + 100bn + 125bn(Supplementary Budget) = N695.1bn

2014 - N469.374bn

arresa:
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How dumb and ignorant can you be? It wasn't built to power homes and the sTate can not power homes by law. It was built to power state infrastructures and institutions.

How many structures in Akwa Ibo are getting uninterrupted power supply in Akwa Ibom? ZERO...

Damn, Akpabio really should have spent some of that billions to educate ignorant and unintelligent clowns like you...

Let me ignore this boring ignorant VILLAGER..

Back to topic..

jazzydee:


Fools like you should go get a job. Being an internet goon for APC is not intellectually stimulating. I have a job and a family to run and i have to go to put my kids to bed i dont have time to respond to an APC paid to post goon.
refreshing to see what Gov. Akpabio Has done in Akwa Ibom. We were all for once proud to be Nigerians and were proud to watch the soccer
Last weekend here in Los Angeles we gathered the Nigerian community at my house to watch the opening of Akwa Ibom Stadium , it was so game in a stadium that is truly world class. as a result most of us, many who are not from Akwa Ibom,have decided to Add Akwa Ibom as our destination for this year vaction visit to Nigeria.
I will be at the stadium for the christmas carol event on the 20th dec. and a host of others are planning to be in uyo Stadium for the march 29th brazil vs Nigeria.
And i just read on this web page that getty image has gazetted The Akwa Ibom Stadium i will be taking my family to getty museum this weekend since its close to me to see those images at least it will be refreshing and different from the embarrassing images of the civil war and dirty/hungry people and streets that are usually on display about Nigeria.

Akpabio Has class and for us in Diaspora we appreciate that. APC should learn how to deliver quality infrastructure from Akpabio like the stadium which will bring people into the state and serve up Nigeria and Africa in goodlight, rather than buy bed for N50 million and commision a useless incomplete hospital building with nothing inside and no access road as Fayemi did. And for you go and offer valet service, sell popcorn or be an event official for event days at that stadium, thats a more honest way to make a living than to play internet tout on nairaland, good night.

Akwa Ibom State Government has said it may not be able to pay contractors for new projects because the projected revenue of over N400 billion expected by the state has not been realised.

The state Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mr. Aniekan Umanah, made the observation in reaction to the Federal Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) mid-year publication which showed that the state earned the highest revenue of N135.84 billion between January and June this year while Osun earned the least with N19.61 billion

ichidodo:
APC paid rodents working assiduosly hard to rubbish Akpabio's efforts but BBC and getty images would beg to disagree......

arresa:



So, common man in Akwa Ibom dey collect garri from BBC and Getty images or they go to BBC and getty images when they are sick because their incompetent and lack of sense of priority GOVERNOR think football pitch and images are more important than hospitals ... LMAO...

You people no go kill pesin with lafta I swear..LWKMD

thomasthomas:
The Akpabio apologist are here to rant and call names without discussing within the context of the thread. Akpabio is a fraud! I'm still waiting to see pictures of World Class schools, World class hospitals etc. No one has posted any pictures of these. The only pictures posted are the stadium and the library with no light during work hours.

Still waiting...

arresa:



So, common man in Akwa Ibom dey collect garri from BBC and Getty images or they go to BBC and getty images when they are sick because their incompetent and lack of sense of priority GOVERNOR think football pitch and images are more important than hospitals ... LMAO...

You people no go kill pesin with lafta I swear..LWKMD

thomasthomas:


That is the reasoning of a fellow who has benefitted from Free and Compulsory Education...

arresa:


Must you people dwell on other people and not the subject matter? If akpabio is a good man, then defend and highlight his achievements and what made him a good man.

Btw, with the largest budget in Nigeria at almost N600 billion akwa ibom is broke according to the state government while at the same time squandering billions on a common 30,000 seat football pitch. With 8 years in office and his huge budgets, the only completed project is this one football pitch apart from the few roads....so why not ask the good man what happened to the largest state budget in Nigeria..

The same fashola you are trying to put down bult many hospitals and 10 maternity centers, but akpabio did not build 1 single hospital and the only one he started is uncompleted after almost 8 years in office.

How long does it take to build one hospital? Even amaechi next door built many hospitals, some of the best schools in Nigeria and even a larger football stadium and sports complex.....

Btw, fashola is not your governor.. must you people lie just to sound relevant while spewing your rubbish?

ichidodo:
Quality facilities and infrastructures such as these will only serve to boost the economy of the state as more and more people including investors visit,build homes,industries (including health) etc thus providing more jobs to the common man, improve house-hold incomes and standard of living...A happy akwa-ibom family is a healthy akwa-ibom family.....Most APC-paid rodents will understand that these can potentially take away the economic and social light of Lagos as a centre of excellence as Akpabio tries to build a better centre of excellence and aquatic splendour close to home in the east,the Lekki sea-port,the Lekki international air-ports are all facilites our dear rodents cannot explain fashola's failure but will vociferously disprove Akpabio's efforts to turn the state into another Lagos..hmmm...who is afraid of akpabio exploits? who wants to pull down Akwaibom for the decaying structures of Lagos?? Akwa-Ibom oni baje o!

ichidodo:
Solid facilities and infrastructures such as these will only serve to boost the economy of the state as more and more people including investors visit,build homes,industries (including health) etc thus providing more jobs to the common man, improve house-hold incomes and standard of living...A well-fed family is a healthy family.

ichidodo:
Solid facilities and infrastructures such as these will only serve to boost the economy of the state as more and more people including investors visit,build homes,industries (including health) etc thus providing more jobs to the common man, improve house-hold incomes and standard of living...A happy akwa-ibom family is a healthy akwa-ibom family.

arresa:



The new gold standard for achievement is getyy image..


Akabio's education is one of a kind..

thomasthomas:


We have been hearing this from 2007 and even in 2011, Governor Godswill Akpabio promised building 31 industries in the state, one per Local Government, today, there is no sight of even one. The happy Akwa Ibom family exist only on the internet on pictures posted by ujoinme

Akwa Ibom State for now is not investor friendly as any investor will have to pass through the Akpabio's family to make any investment that is why seven years after 'Uncommon Transformation', no genuine investor has made any investment and the Akpabio's family had long relocated to Lagos

arresa:
Teslim Balogun stadium enter getty image.. What a wonderful achievement..


Kudos to Lagos state

arresa:



Your people is your wealth and sick and unhealthy people are worthless to the society and your economy. soccer fields remain dormant for days, weeks and even months till the next game, but people visit hospitals for ailments and treatment everyday...

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

-Mahatma Gandhi