**Says His Most Fit To Govern The State, Promise To Rescue The State From Shackles Of Underdevelopment, Joblessness And Mismanagement of the present administration **

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As the time draws near for the 2019 general elections, the seat of Governor of Cross River state is already in hot contention. A lawyer and former Commisioner for Justice under the administration of former governor Liyel Imoke, barrister Eyo Ekpo on thursday 30th August, 2018 joined the gubernatorial race for the 2019 general election.
Ekpo who considers himself most fit to pilot the affaris of Cross River state, purchase his nomination form for this purpose at the Headquarters of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Maitama, Abuja, today amidst large entourage and fanfare.

While fielding questions from journalists, Ekpo exprerssed strong desire to rescue the State from shackles of under development, joblesness and mismanagement that have charaterised the present adminsistration in the state. According to him, Cross River State from inception of this democratic dispension, is one of the state that is vibrant and not supposed to be in lack.

He said that the administration started on a strong footing though and performed successfully during Imoke’s administration. However, he regretted that as it stands at the moment, good governance has elluded the state to the point that there is absolutely no meaningful development going on and that everything seen on the pages of newspapers about development in Cross River state is merely superficial.
The above informs the reason why he has provided himself to serve the state so as to recover the mandate which Cross River people willingly gave the people in power. To him, there was no basis for a second chance for this government.

On what he plans to do for the people based on the above reasons, he said he would reinvigorate traditional institutions and make them vibrant for effective government- people relationship and good governance pursuits. He equally said that he would reassess the executive Council meeting so as to reflect meaningful deliberations and contributions towards enhanced infrastructural develoment and masses oriented policies and initiatives instead of the present fray of attending executive council meeting just to clap for the governor and praise sing ineptitude in office.

He also said that he was going to tackle the fallen educatioin standard in the state by overhauling the curriculum issues with a view to inculcating ICT programs and standards to bring education in the state to trend with global direction of improvement in education. More so, the Cross River state gubernatorial hopeful pointed out that his administration would take issues of tourism very serious because Cross River state is greatly endowed with natural features conducive for the growth of the tourism industry. Again, his other focus would be in revamping the security archiitecture of the state with a view to improving on security of lives and property of citizens. All these, he said, are not very special or perculiar because they are issues of natural desire and fundamental civic right of the citizens. To him, SDP as a political party is trending with young, vibrant, energetic, and promising party prepared and ready to make credible impact in the nation’s electoral process. He exprerssed his expectation that INEC would do the right nd appropriate thing in the electoral process.


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