After pondering on series of publications made on social and perhaps print media with all, bouncing to an unsubstantiated propagation that the shoe, that is to say legacies left behind by former governor Godswill Akpabio is an oversized shoe for the present governor, Mr. Udom Emmanuel.

I was bewildered to some extent that I asked myself. Did the former governor of Akwa Ibom State now a castellated Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Chief Godswill Akpabio stationed a Jerusalem in the State during time as governor? Excluding of Heaven or Paradise as outrightly christened by the Jehovah Witnesses' congregation, if Akpabio was unable to at least stimulate Akwa Ibom equivalent to, if not better than Jerusalem before the expiration of his tenure as governor, then his band of supporters are undisputably making caricature of him. In our dialect, one would say " ado edóng".

I believe if their katzenjammer is about the execution of projects, everyone, both in Akwa Ibom and outside the shores of the State would sternly rebuke them. The present governor of the State, Mr. Udom Emmanuel has invested copiously in executing impressive projects. I believe there's more to their brouhaha than what we are cognizant of. At the end of this piece, we would be able to apprehend if Gov. Udom Emmanuel has truly failed as conceived by the harum sacrums.

Before Akpabio's tenure as governor elapsed, so many maniacal activities within the State had made people to see it as a citadel of insecurity and anti-social activities. The place was deserted by investors, tourists and even indigenes because of these vices. Politically motivated assassination and kidnapping which were strategies for either driving away or incapacitating politicians they opined to be rebels or uncompromised. The State was hot and blooded for anything good to come from it. This tempo, they wanted Mr. Udom Emmanuel to maintain.

Antecedently, tertiary institutions across the State were regarded as militia encampments. Our students were brainwashed into cultism, taught how to handle sophisticated and locally prepared arms. They succeeded in this by always maintaining " I cannot give you fish everyday, allow me to teach you how to fish". Some became victims of school dropout, but that didn't alter the fact that even the ones in school were manipulated or induced into thuggery. This was their sole essence of being indoctrinated, all for the reason of sourcing for fish for themselves.

While some of these boys were massacred in active services for their paymasters, others were used, dumped with jeopardized futures. Some others were even bewitched and killed by their paymasters. This is what was expected of the present governor, to either raise or maintain the realm of evil forest cum cult activities in the State. It'll also interest you to note that if not completely annihilated, cultism in Akwa Ibom State has been reduced to its minimal. You can now behold the rationale why the pioneers and sponsors of cultism are against the present governor. One reason the acclaimed cultists for Christ are mobilizing mercenaries against the State Governor.

Execution of monumental projects/ commissioning of uncompleted projects was a generally embraced culture in their time. After dispatching more than triple of the real amount for a certain project, the project would be left unfinished but commissioned and hyped on television channels, Radio stations print media and as well social media. Some of these projects were subjected to money variation but at that, they were still abandoned.

The Ibom Tropicana Entertainment Center according to them was going to be an ultra-modern relaxation center, but tears enveloped my eye the day I realized that billions of naira was released for same project but yet, Ibom Tropicana Entertainment Center presently is nothing but an international popcorn stand. Yes, I heard they sell one of the best popcorns there and thus, people trip in daily to purchase the popcorn. If not that promiscuity has been abolished in this regime, the place would have been the center of commercial promiscuous activities.

The Nest of Champions, otherwise referred to as the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium is another monument that strikes me sick each time I ascertain its actual standard as proposed by them, how much was released for that project and its current fate.

A whopping sum of N100bn was proposed and released for an Olympic-sized stadium with so many facilities like, Basketball courts, lawn tennis courts, volleyball courts, swimming pools, among other essential facilities. I didn't mean to make you cry, but I want you to note that the monument called Godswill Akpabio International Stadium is nothing but an International Viewing Center. It's actually the best in the world. With the N100bn released for the project, the State Government is still owing the company, Julius Berger a huge sum. There's no year the Government does not pay at least N400m to the company in a bid to augment the debt. Again, they wanted the present governor, Mr. Udom Emmanuel to reign in this state.

On Covid-19, if it was between 2007-2015, Akwa Ibom State would have had confirmed cases that triples the total cases in Nigeria. Akpabio would have taken advantage of the pandemic as a money-making venture. The Covid-19 relief funds given to the most affected States would have been doubled for Akwa Ibom State. So many of our youths would have been confirmed positive, and in the respective isolation centers, they would have been paid N5000 each day. This would go on that by the time we start having the real Covid-19 cases, there wouldn't be space or proper medical attention for them. Now, they would be left with the option to either stay and die, or go into the streets and spread the virus.

The accolades given to the Governor for changing the face of our health sector would have been the opposite if Akpabio was still the governor. Revamping and equipping the hospitals with up-to-date equipment is one project Akpabio wouldn't have ventured into, because it won't endow him the opportunity of turning it into a money-making venture. Hence, the fight against the novel corona virus disease would have been far from being successful.

With the Covid-19 pandemic, so many people in the State, especially members of the opposition party would have decided to run away from the State than to stay and be assassinated by unknown gunmen. It was as dangerous as this.

With these, I can deduce that the Akpabio's paid media mercenaries who are shedding crocodile's tears are bunch jokers of the century to have believed everyone would posses their deceitful tendencies.

Mr. Udom Emmanuel has not failed and will never fail his people. They were the ones who failed Akwa Ibom State.