Akpabio, PDP liable for lack of federal presence in Akwa Ibom state

Godswill-Akpabio - Nigeria Economic Crunch- Senator Akpabio defends APC Government
FORMER Minister of Petroleum Resources, ex-Governor of  old Cross River State and Chairman, Akwa Ibom APC  Caucus, Chief Don Etiebet, spoke with Vanguard in Uyo on President Muhammadu Buhari and his policies, issues in Niger Delta development and politics of Akwa Ibom State. He also took up the former governor of the state, Senator Godswill Akpabio, and PDP to task, saying the past 18 years of PDP rule of the state brought nothing to the state. Excerpts:
The decisions President Muhammadu Buhari is taking on Niger Delta problems will contribute seriously to the development of the area. The first of these decisions was his order to clean up Ogoni land. The important thing about the approval of modular refineries to replace the illegal refineries is geared towards producing petroleum products that can meet international standards. 
With the use of standard equipment in the production of petroleum products, there would not be an adverse effect on the environment with spot and many other things that are already descending on places like Port Harcourt.
He recognizes how important Niger Delta region is, that is why he is paying more attention to the zone; that is where the oil comes from. When he came, he appointed a South-South man from Niger Delta to be his Minister of State for Petroleum, holding the portfolio himself because he knows the importance of the region and its oil to his government.
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His Minister of State is a professional in the industry, who knows what to do; a man who was already rich who has come to give his all to the country. And since Ibe Kachikwu came on board, we have seen what he has been doing. He got the elders of Niger Delta to come together and to tell the militants to stop the bombing.
The militants have stopped bombing and I pray they stop forever. May God break into their hearts for them to stop bombing for ever because whether you like it or not as I said in one of the South- South Leaders’ meetings, we suffer the most when they break the oil pipeline; the oil flows around our farmlands and pollutes our rivers?
When you break the gas pipeline, the gas is poisonous and can kill if not immediately blocked.
We cannot achieve good governance or development through that and we are happy that they have stopped the bombing and the volume of oil production is rising and stabilising again. So, with this background, all the things that the Federal Government has promised the South-South will come.
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Akpabio, PDP liable for lack of federal presence in Akwa Ibom state

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