Governor Emmanuel to unveil MPM National Leadership Friday
A Pro-PDP group canvassing support for Governor Udom Emmanuel’s successioni n Akwa Ibom State, Maitain Peace Movement is set to unveil the National Leader of the organization on Friday, 19th November 2021.
Briefing the journalists at the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Press Center, Uyo, the Acting National Coordinator of the body, Barr Emmanuel Enoidem stated that Governor Udom Emmanuel is expected to perform the Unveiling of the organisation at the event which will take place at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium.
Enoidem noted that the organization which was established in in July 2021 to consolidate on the gains of peace by Governor Udom Emmanuel’s administration in ensuring peace and tranquility in the state has chapters in all the LGAs and Wards in the state.
According to the outgoing National Legal Adviser of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, peace is one of the greatest achievements of the Governor Udom Emmanuel’s administration.
He attributed the socio-economic development of Governor Udom Emmanuel’s administration to the enduring peace made possible by the governor whom he described as a child of destiny to Akwa Ibom State and an epitome of peace.
The former commissioner added that the body was formed to perpetuate and propagate peace beyond the tenure of Governor Udom Emmanuel by canvassing support for the Governor’s succession plans.
He posited that peace is the panacea for sustainable development in the state while calling on Akwa Ibom people to embrace peace and support Governor Emmanuel in his succession plans for continuous progress and prosperity for all Akwa Ibomites
The press statement reads in full:
COME, LET’S GUARD THIS PEACE TOGETHER!
BEING A TEXT OF A PRESS CONFERENCE BY HONOURABLE BARR. EMMANUEL ENOIDEM, CHAIRMAN, MAINTAIN PEACE MOVEMENT, AKWA IBOM STATE AT THE NUJ PRESS CENTRE, INFORMATION DRIVE, OFF IBB WAY, UYO AKS.
On the 28th Day of July, by the special grace of God and with the blessings of His Excellency, the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Udom Emmanuel and Grand Patron of the Maintain Peace Movement, we took time out to make deliberate investment on the monumental gains of peace engendered in our dear state by the government of Gov Udom Emmanuel. This historic endeavoour is intended to make the legacy of peace in Akwa Ibom State enduring and sustainable by ingraining it in the minds and hearts of our people.
On that day, we took the message of Peace, the gargantuan gains our state has enjoyed on account of the legacy of Peace that the present administration has laid to the good people of Ikono and Ini Local Government Areas.
Since then, this message of Peace has penetrated every Local Government Area and political Ward in our State.
The overarching message which this Movement has taken to all the nooks and crannies of Akwa Ibom State, has been that Peace has been the firm foundation and the anchor which Governor Udom Emmanuel has built the strong pillars of development across all sectors of our state economy.
On account of this, as people who have witnessed firsthand and cherished the benefits of peace, we lauded out to plant the seeds of peace across the the land.
For instance, it is an incontrovertible truth that the 3 aircrafts that opened the door for the flagship Ibom Air project which has become a watershed in the Nigeria’s aviation sector could not have touched down the Victor Attah International Airport if irate and warring youths of the host communities had closed down the airport as a way of ventilating any grievance.
We also acknowledge the fact that the numerous industries that have created a viable means of direct and indirect employment for several Akwa Ibom State indigenes would not have been sited anywhere in this state if the one who superintends over the affairs of this state did not send a clear message early enough that he is a man of peace.
Today, with over 7 aircrafts in the fleet and counting, the very young but award-winning Ibom Air project has become the airline that defines the path for the nation’s aviation sector and has added a beauty to the magnificent brand name that Akwa Ibom State has become.
As we march vigorously towards the actualization of the Ibom Deep Seaport, we shudder to think what will befall this project, which will stay as a golden goose for Akwa Ibom people, if we do not build on the present legacy of peace that we currently enjoy as a State.
This is why we have decided to bring the message of peace to a wider audience at the State level.
Come, Friday, the 19th Day of November, 2021, His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Udom Emmanuel, the Grand Patron of the Maintain Peace Movement will mount the rostrum to amplify the clarion call on every Akwa Ibom person to lend their hands to the patriotic task of sustaining this cherished ideal of peace.
On that day, His Excellency will formally unveil the Movement and Inaugurate the National Executive Committee of the Movement. We therefore use this platform to invite all Akwa Ibom people to join us as we converge on the Nest of Champions by Noon on that Friday for this historic event.
Gentlemen, as I end these short remarks, I like to remind us of the immortal words of the celebrated Playwright of towering repute, William Shakespeare who noted in his book Julius Ceaser when he mused that:
“There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of the life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries
On such a full sea are we now afloat
And we must take the current when it serves or lose our ventures.
Gentlemen, I charge us as concerned stakeholders in Project Akwa Ibom and an advocate of peace, that we must take this tide of Peace by the flood, or risk losing all the gains we have made in the past.
I thank you most profoundly.
Hon. (Barr.) Emmanuel Enoidem
Chairaman, Maintain Peace Movement
Akwa Ibom State.
