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The Akwa Ibom Liberation Movement (AILM), a socio-political group, has condemned the statement credited to the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on the performance of Udom Emmanuel, the governor in the first 100 days since his reelection.

At a media briefing, Solomon Abasiekong, the group’s secretary general, said the action of APC shows ignorance.

Abasiekong maintained that soon after his re-election, Emmanuel went back to his job to ensure that Akwa Ibom is transformed into an industrialised state.

“Even an ignorant member of the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, in the State, questions the sanity of the party Publicity Secretary, Mr. Nkereuwem Enyongekere, who suddenly got a brain wave, few days ago, to doodle hogwash about the performance of Governor Udom Emmanuel in the first hundred days of his second term,” he said.

“Election has since been concluded and winners announced. Now is time for governance, which obviously Mr. Enyongekere and the leadership of his broom carrying party fail to understand.

“As a group, concerned with the development of the State, we at Akwa Ibom Liberation Movement would have loved to see the APC first complete the Calabar – Itu Road, which it made so much noise about during the presidential election campaigns, before rising to comment on issues of development in the State. Perhaps, that is too much to do, then let the party undertake atleast one people oriented project or program to show that it is sincere about improving lives of Nigerians living in the State.

“Celebrating the first hundred days of any public office holder are not constitutionally instituted for public officers to show their achievements or give account of their stewardship to his critics, right from the first day after his re-election, Governor Udom Emmanuel, hit the ground running.”