04/05/2025
"Finally, Your Excellency, we would like to pay a THANK YOU VISIT to Mr. President across party lines"..... Gov. Umo Eno. 👏👏👏
.....IBOM DEEP SEAPORT: WHAT GOVERNOR UMO ENO TOLD SENATOR AKPABIO......
"Your Excellency, I wish we had a thermometer to test the temperature of Akwa Ibom tonight. You will understand that everyone is happy because you have come home to see your people, and that we can receive you again in this banquet hall, and this facility that God used your hand to build many, many years ago.
We want to thank you for your decision to come for this courtesy visit; we have just held this banquet in your honor. It is a tremendous privilege for me as a person to have the honor to host the Senate President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Your Excellency, I had some requests while we were in my office, and I want to please make it public, they're just three.
-Your Excellency, the first thing I want to request is that you please help the Federal Government to partner with Akwa Ibom State on the Ibom Deep Seaport. Don't bother about roads in this state; we will do roads for you.
I know you can always walk into the office of the President. No state can develop the Deep Seaport. If we miss it now, we don't know when next God will smile on us. Let it be to your credit that when you were the Senate President, we got the deep Seaport. We are prepared to work with you in that area.
-Your Excellency, the second request is that Akwa Ibom is blessed with oil palm; it is one of the biggest; naturally, it just grows. We want to partner with the federal government to develop our oil palm plantation and to have an industrial oil mill in this state. I know this is the kind of thing that will also bring employment and will benefit our people.