I don’t travel for jamboree – Ayade

Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has debunked insinuations by many that he usually abandons the state he campaigned to govern for jamboree trips.

Gov. Ayade said his several trips abroad were in the best interest of the state and not self-serving.

Addressing newsmen on arrival at the Margaret Ekpo International Airport, Calabar, from Asia where he spent nearly one month, the governor disclosed that his trip was in the interest of the state as modalities had been put on ground to ensure that the factories currently at various stages of construction across the state became operational soon.

He said, “Every trip I have made is for the interest of Cross River. If I need to go on a holiday, I will not choose Asia; you don’t go to Asia for a holiday; you go to Asia for business. Cross River will witness the change I have always sought, and against that background, our factories will start running soon.”

He said he visited India regarding the 21 megawatts power project in the state, adding that, “I brought back an Indian team with me, and so in a couple of weeks, they will be doing the test run.”

He insisted that, “For any society to grow, its roads, ports and factories remain very critical, hence my intervention on factories which is a co-agendum that I drive, creating an opportunity for us to become manufacturers and producers so that we can underpin our tourism on hard work as the foundation of deliberate income for young people.”