Ayade, ready to start his second and final Missionary Journey of Good Governance in Government House, Calabar

By: Solomon Asha

After obtaining a landslide victory at the March 9, 2019 governorship election, and secured re-election, courtesy of appreciative Cross Riverians and other Nigerians residing in the state, and with the Certificate of Return to be presented to him on Friday, March 29, 2019 by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Senator Professor Benedict Beyioshuye Ayade, is passionately set to embrace his second and final Missionary service journey of good governance in Government House, Diamond Hill Calabar from May 29, 2019.

Ayade's second and final Missionary service journey after securing his victory is not a fresh and unknown journey to the Obudu Born politician, academic , philanthropist, business Mogul and inventor, but a familiar terrian

It is a road of governance and unselfish service to the people and the entire Man kind which he commenced at the upper Chambers of the National Assembly, from there sailed to his first term as governor in 2015 to 2019 where he has once again been entrusted with the bastion of leadership to continue in his good service and deeds to Cross Riverians till May 29, 2023.

The governor is not going into an unknown terrian but that which he is so familiar with and eminently qualified to preside over as he has done since 2015 as the Chief Executive of the state and between 2011-2015 as a Senator of repute whose contributions during the period are legendary and well documented.

As a Senator in the 7th Assembly, Ayade sponsored and passed the highest Bills that were mostly people's oriented, progressive and of National Development interest among his colleagues at the time and would always verbally argued and innunciated articulately on issues that concerns the welfare of the common Man and the down trodden.

Between 2015 and now that he has the opportunity given to him by the good will of the people and foreordained by divine Providence to cut the shot as the governor, Ayade has not disappointed at all as the performances are self-evident ones that.does not required the consultation of a soothsayer, except by those who have eyes but cannot see and ears but cannot hear, neither can they feel.

This writer challenge anyone who who still holds the notion that Ayade has done absolutely nothing since 2015 to date to come up with list of completed economically viable projects/infrastructure and industries by a democratically elected or Military Governor/Administrator within the space of less than 1460 days in office as governor Ayade can proudly point to the multi-billions naira Cross River Garment factory, Rice Seed and Seedlings factory, Toothpick factory, network of roads completed, Primary Healthcare facilities, improvement on education facilities and lifting the state from obscure positions in WAEC and NECO to enviable heights in the country?

How about the other multi-billions Naira ongoing projects that are currently between 70-99 percent completion such as the CALAPHARM and Calachika factories, Cocoa processing plant and Rice processing factory, the dual carriage way cutting across the entire five LGAs of the northern senatorial district, the Boki East-West road, Reference hospitals, Calasvegas New City, the 21 megawatt power plant, Ultramodern soyabeans and yellow maize feed Mills, the Integrated Poultry, Canadian School, Quarry factories, Woda Cotton farm, and Obubra maize farm, Teachers' Training and Continous Education Training facility in Biase and roads as well as the Odukpani Banana Plantation, etc. etc.? Can anyman deny the existence of these projects and still remain to be refer to as a sane person?

Has there been any project undertaken by a governor within a tenure of four years whose cost will run in trillions when finally completed as would the 275 kilometers six lane Super highway and the Bakassi Deep Seaport that are both ongoing?

Ayade is consciously attracting and soliciting for investors and projects from the private sector and the federal government of Nigeria as well as from foreign investors to fastrack the the totality of the present administration's Development programmes/projects in the agro-allied and other sectors value chain. On Wednesday this week, Governor Ayade solicited for robust relationship and assistance from the federal government in the area of construction of dams and comprehensive irrigation programmes across the State to bolster the state's projects' value chain revolving around agro-allied industries, water and sanitation.

Based on the foregoing, and the the numbers of projects that have been executed and commissioned by the Ayade's led administration and those ongoing, it is undisputable that the Obudu Born Governor is stepping out to commence his second term in style, clear vision and vigor and shall work assidously to ensure the completion of his projects and if need and resources permits,embark on new ones.

All that every Cross Riverian who love the progress of the state should naturally do is to give the administration of Ayade all the support it needs, and avoid all forms of distractions and antics of pull him down syndrome and baseless character assassination.

It is equally instructive and heart warming that after securing a landslide victory that gave him his second term, Ayade acted as a true peace Maker, a patriot and a man with a large heart by extending olive branch and hand of fellowship to all other candidates who contested the elections in other political platforms to work together with him to build Cross River State of our dream and vision.

That timely invitation from Ayade to the governorship candidates of other parties who contested the coveted seat with him equally show Governor Ben Ayade as man who is still committed to running an open door policy and an all embracing Government in the second term as he is presently doing, and that after the election, there is no Victor, no vanquish.

Finally, Ayade is prepared to carry on with the mantle of leadership which the people of Cross River State have entrusted on him, and from all indications, he is physically, spiritually, mentally and psychologically equipped to take the state to a proud height than he made it in 2015.

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