Otu: I Refuse to Follow Paths of Our Dark Past

Bassey Inyang in Calabar

Cross River State Governor, Senator Bassey Otu, has stated that his administration has disentangled the state from its dark past, when successive administrations abandoned laudable, but uncompleted efforts of their predecessors.

The governor said this yesterday in Calabar in a state-wide broadcast to mark his administration’s first year in office.

“In my attempt to achieve the programmes and projects of a people first agenda, I refused to follow the paths of our dark past, known for near total abandonment of policies, programmes and projects of previous administrations.

“I reasoned that every project, properly executed to its conclusion will in one way or the other impact positively on the people. I was therefore deliberate in adopting a path which promises to bring alive every investment of all past administrations for the benefit of the people,” he said.

Otu said some laudable results derived from his administration’s break away from the dark past could be seen in the “bold return to the Obudu Ranch Resort, which has attracted unprecedented support by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in figures which surpass all previous administrations put together.

“The maximum utilisation of the Teachers Retraining Institute in Biase, and the upgrading of the State College of Education to a University of Education and Entrepreneurship.”

Otu said it was the mindset of continuing with the good past that his administration was putting in efforts to complete the Obudu Cargo Airport, as well the ongoing efforts to strengthen the CallyAir fleet with 5 additional airplanes in order to reduce the air traffic problems faced by the people.

The governor said within the last one year, his administration had been working assiduously towards regaining the state’s lost assets, among them Tinapa, Oban Plantation, Akamkpa Rubber Plantation and others that were wrongly sold out.