“I don’t want to be an orphan, and so please don’t walk away.”
Mr Eno said this on 29 May at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo, in hisMr Eno was Mr Emmanuel’s preferred successor among several other governorship aspirants in the Peoples Democratic Party.
Mr Eno acknowledged that the former governor helped him to become his successor against all the odds. “You have said many times that after today you will walk away from governance. Your Excellency, no one, no good father gives birth to a baby and abandons the baby. I don’t want to be an orphan, and so please don’t walk away.”The camera panned immediately to the former governor, as he and his wife beamed with smiles.
Governor Eno thanked all the previous governors of Akwa Ibom, including Godswill Akpabio, for the foundation they laid for the state which he said has enabled the state to “rise”.
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