The Nnamdi Azikiwe International airport Abuja was agog Thursday as the Cross River State commercial airliner, Cally Air, made its maiden landing.
Governor of Cross River State, Sir Ben Ayade, who was at the tarmac for the historic touchdown of the aircraft expressed excitement over the flight which earlier left the Murtala Mohammed International airport Lagos for Abuja.
The governor while congratulating the people of Cross River state for the feat said: “This is the beginning of Cross River state’s emancipation and complete decoupling from dependence on the federal government. My strong conviction is that Cally Air is the beginning of the privatization process of actually creating a private sector that never existed before. It is also the beginning of creating an alternative economy that never existed in Cross River state”.
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