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The Akwa Ibom State International Worship Centre is of great significance to a state named after God and consisting of a 99% Christian population, according to Udom Emmanuel, the governor.

Speaking during a project assessment visit to the site, the governor said the building will be an altar that will perpetually draw God’s pleasure and blessings to people of the state.

“If we say this is the only state named after God, then something must be there to show. I am sure God is happy and through this a lot of blessings will come from God to the entire people, even generations yet unborn in the state,” the governor said.

He thanked the people of the state and corporate organisations who have joined hands with the state government to see to the success of the project.

According to Governor Emmanuel, the Akwa Ibom State International Worship Centre will be inaugurated by the end of 2022, with assurances of being the best its kind upon completion.

He thanked the supervising ministry for ensuring the consistency of the work with the intensions of the state government.

He expressed satisfaction with the quality of work so far put into the project and described the building as an unprecedented sacred place that will serve as an altar for Akwa Ibom people and generations unborn.

“I want to appreciate Julius Berger, what you are seeing here can challenge any engineering of any standard anywhere in the world,” he said.

“When you seat back you will have an understanding of the concept we have for the whole building I will give them kudos for that. Then come back to see what is buried underground, it is over 680 piles. People see a building, I don’t see a building, I see that I am raising an altar for my people and for generations yet unborn”.