Senator John Udoedehe, Secretary, Interim National Working Committee of APC.
Abasifreke Effiong – Uyo
The Secretary of the Interim National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator John Udoedehe said he spent eight hours on the Calabar – Itu road.
Udoedehe who was addressing journalists in Uyo during his 57th birthday was asked what the APC led federal government was doing about the deplorable state of the Calabar-Itu road.
“I was on that road for eight hours. I told people that I am coming to Akwa Ibom, people went and crowded the airport during the COVID-19; so to avoid breaking COVID-19 protocol, I used Calabar and ended up on that road for about eight hours.”
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“Recently the Obong of Calabar and his council went and met with the President and spoke about the road. From our end, we are doing personal consultation and pleading with the President for that road. Every honest person would not shy away from admitting that the road is in a deplorable state.”
“The decay of infrastructure all over Nigeria is known, but we have the problem of funds. When the APC came in oil price dropped; we had economic recession and then the COVID-19 pandemic. I would have loved Calabar-Itu road to be dualised, I would have loved it to be in perfect shape, but in politics there are so many forces competing for attention.”
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The federal government awarded contract for the dualization of a section of the Calabar-Itu road in 2018; commencement of the job has staggered since then.
Motorists and commuters have complained about the deplorable state of the road which has been attributed for the significant rise in cost of transportation and fare on food items between Akwa Ibom and Cross River State.
Answering a question on the state of his party in Akwa Ibom state, Senator Udoedehe said the APC in the state is intact and united, urging members of the party to avoid counting individual’s interest to mean conflict in the party.
“Don’t count interest of aspiration to be conflict. If a person wants to be governor and I also want to be governor, that’s interest. It does not mean that there is conflict in the party. The party is united. I, Akpabio, Ita Enang, Umana, we are united and intact”, he said.
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