Your Excellency, I wish we had a thermometer to test the temperature of Akwa Ibom tonight. You will understand that everyone is happy because you have come home to see your people and that we can receive you again in this banquet hall, and this facility that God used your hand to build many, many years ago.
We want to thank you for your decision to come for this courtesy visit; we have just held this banquet in your honour. It is a tremendous privilege for me as a person to have the honour of hosting the Senate President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Your Excellency, I had some requests while we were in my office, and I want to please make them public, they’re just three.
-Your Excellency, the first thing I want to request is that you please help the Federal Government partner with Akwa Ibom State on the Ibom Deep Seaport. Don’t bother about roads in this state; we will do roads for you.
I know you can always walk into the office of the President. No state can develop the Deep Seaport. If we miss it now, we don’t know when God will smile at us. Let it be to your credit that when you were the Senate President, we got the deep Seaport. We are prepared to work with you in that area.
-Your Excellency, the second request is that Akwa Ibom be blessed with oil palm; it is one of the biggest; naturally, it just grows. We want to partner with the federal government to develop our oil palm plantation and to have an industrial oil mill in this state. I know this is the kind of thing that will also bring employment and will benefit our people.
-Finally, Your Excellency, we would like to pay a THANK YOU VISIT to Mr. President across party lines. We would like to go thank him for standing by you and supporting you. We would like to go as a State to show that appreciation, and we know you can make that happen.
Your Excellency, please, at your very earliest convenience, you can help us put this together so that we can go thank Mr President and also share some moments with him led by your humble self across our party lines.
These are our simple requests.
You are our Grandfather, Your Excellency, as a Grandson most time I’ll be coming to have breakfast with you, so please indulge me, and when I bring Akwa Ibom issues to your table, please look at it passionately.
THANK YOU, YOUR EXCELLENCY!
