2019: Governor’s Wife, Monarch Warn A’Ibom Youths against Bloodletting
Wife of the Akwa Ibom State Governor, Martha Udom Emmanuel has called on elders and stakeholders in the state to caution the youths against being use as tool or agent of destruction nor to ferment trouble as the 2019 general elections approaches.
Mrs. Emmanuel gave the advice at the inauguration of an Ultra-modern civic centre built and furnished by the State Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Comrade Ini Ememobng for the people of the Ibioo Ibom Local Government area where he hails.
“Let me encourage everyone seated here as elections are approaching, please go and talk to your children especially the youths, let them not be used as tool of destruction or agent of violence. Election will not separate us, election will come and go and we will still remain in Akwa Ibom.
“The youth, I want to advice you not to cause any trouble, don’t allow anybody to take you to warfront only to abandon you to fall a victim. Let the elections be done orderly; if you cannot make it this time you can make it other time. It is not do or die affair.
“I am begging you, if somebody gives you a gun to go and kill somebody asks him to go and send his son or brother. Don’t be agent of destruction because a day of reckoning is coming. Let this election be the freest election we never had in the country” the Governor wife stressed.
Mrs. Emmanuel was impressed with what the Publicity Secretary of the PDP has so far achieved within his portfolio for his LGA including, provision of water, donation of uniforms, exercise books and other writing materials to primary and secondary school children, providing of artificial limbs to two pupils who had problems with their legs and the building of the civic centre for the people etc.
She used the occasion to challenge elected representatives and people in the position of authority to emulate Comrade Ememobng by doing something for their community as the Governor could not do everything in meeting the needs of the people.