2019: Oron Union Receives Asuquo Okpo, We Will Support You For Governorship - PG - Sirealsilver

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2019: Oron Union Receives Asuquo Okpo, We Will Support You For Governorship - PG

Akwa Ibom 2019 Guber- Asuquo Okpo meets Oro Royal fathers ...Gets royal blessings


By Joseph Atainyang

Still in the spirit of the long walk to the hilltop mansion of Akwa Ibom State as governor, the Barr. Asuquo Okpo team today has visited and has been well received by the Central Executive Committee, (CEC) of the apex sociocultural cum political organization of Oro Nation, Oron Union, where a promise to support his ambition has been made.


Speaking during the visit, the Oron Union President General, Dr Effiong Edunam recounted the pains of Oro people whom he said are aggrieved, saying it was very important for Oro to smell the seat of power in the state. He thanked Barr Okpo for his courage and vowed that Oro was strongly behind him.

Hear him, "The step you have taken is the step of profound courage and sacrifice. We have done a post mortem regarding what happened in 2015. 

We bear the blame but our Ibibio brothers did not do their best. As the majority, they should have risen to make a statement regarding the election. 

Our youths are angry and they have fire in their souls. Ibibio who blame us must understand the injustice they have done to us. I am a historian and I document all these woes as they come.

"I recounted their injustice to us some weeks ago at Uyio Ikpa Isong Ibibio and the first Paramount Ruler to shake my hand is that of Onna. We are going to fight back. Oro man is at the juncture of militancy. 

Oro man is at the juncture of unapologetic violence. We have been the victims all these years. But, historically and geographically, we must live in peace together with the Ibibios.

"We want to develop; we can't go to war with the Ibibio. The Oro man is angry. Oro produces the largest volume of oil in West Africa and not one community in Oro has been recognized as core oil producing. 

We have never asked for what belongs to the majority; we only ask for what it is willing to share. This man has everything to be the Governor of Akwa Ibom State.

"Oro is in despair and it has been so for a long time. We don't have roads, we don't have anything. It has become part of our history that those in power develop their places. Should our own environment lie waste forever?

"Ibaka was marked out as the best site for the seaport since the colonial days. We will swallow the injustice of the past. 

But we want to be part of this state so we can live together in peace. There must be a meeting of minds which must develop togetherness among us.

"I thank Barr Okpo for litting the candle. Ours is an enduring struggle. Go forth into this state. Ask for your right. The whole spirit of Oro is behind you. The people of Oro are behind you. You will succeed", the PG prayed.

While declaring his interest for the contest, Asuquo Okpo noted that he was at Oron to inform the Union of his readiness to contest for governorship in 2019. 

He asked the Union for its blessing and full involvement in his campaign requesting that the Union should continue to press and discuss with their Ibibio brothers so that they can give Oro a slot.

His words, "I am here to inform Oron Union that I will contest for Governorship of Akwa Ibom State. We are sure that we are going to succeed. 

My ambition is not about myself, it is to fight for the course of Oro and the future of our grand children. Any Oron son that is willing to run, I want us to support him to run.

"Our brothers in Ibibio and Annang will only be able to support us if they see our seriousness. I implore us to re-strategize to engage our brothers so they can see the need to support us. 

I am sure they will give it to us. Oro is well blessed with natural resources and we must not allow this four years to slip off. We must wake up and become conscious of what is ahead of us.

"I am ready to carry the cross. I am sure that in no distant date, we will clearly see the possibility for us to clinch the hilltop. So Mr PG, I invite you to join hands with us. 

Tell your branch presidents and let them get their members informed so they should know that Oro is ready to reclaim what belongs to them. I am already a winner."

"I want us to rise and revive the "Afang ki" philosophy (philosophy of one direction). We need to engage ourselves. We are taking stuck so we can know what went wrong. Something is wrong with Oron. 

We need to go back and bring Afang ki back. We may not all be delegates; but we must revive our spirit, wake from slumber and reclaim our mandate. 

I may not be the only Oro man to contest, but we must support our people so that people can see that we all are ready. We want Oro Union to be fully with us."

Also speaking, an APC chieftain in the state, Elder Enefiok Ekefre in his remarks, noted that Oro, having been unduly marginalized and having what it took to govern the state, should arise and fight for their right. "Being a minority should not be the basis for marginalization. 

The level of marginalization meted against the Oro people is what I will not want to befall my worst enemy. I was here to see whether Oro people are ready for the struggle because even the grace of God is not free; you must struggle for it.

"Being a minority should not be the basis for marginalization. The level of marginalization meted against the Oro people is what I will not want to befall my worst enemy. 

I was here to see whether Oro people is ready for the struggle because even the grace of God is not free; you must struggle for it. Oro has the capacity to govern this state. 

They have the resources, you have the intellectual capital having been well learned. So I am ready to lead a vanguard of Ibibio people to support you to get there because I don't want militancy in my state", Elder Ekefre had said.

Meanwhile, the President, Akwa Ibom Renaissance, Comrade Anthony Bassey said Ibibio people are sincere people who do not want trouble which is why they want Oro people to smell power adding that if power goes to the other rank of the APC, it will roll for eight years making it 12 years for Eket Senayorial District and that Uyo will as well want to rule for 12 years before it goes to Annang. 

He added that the cheating meted on Oro was too much and so Oro must rise to take what they have been forfeited
2019: Oron Union Receives Asuquo Okpo, We Will Support You For Governorship - PG Reviewed by sirealsilver on June 10, 2017 Rating: 5 By Joseph Atainyang Still in the spirit of the long walk to the hilltop mansion of Akwa Ibom State as governor, the Barr. Asuquo ...

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