A prominent politician from the South-South part of Nigeria has spoken on the alleged ruins left behind by former governor, Akpabio in Akwa Ibom during his 8-year regime in the state.
Otu Ita Toyo
A former state chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Akwa Ibom State, Otu Ita Toyo, has accused a former governor of the state, Godswill Akpabio, of squandering N4 trillion that accrued to the state during his tenure. Premium Times reports.
Mr. Toyo said instead of creating wealth and lifting the people of the state out of poverty, Mr. Akpabio ended up throwing more people into poverty.
“Today we are broke,” the politician said. “Is that possible, after N4 trillion? If you have N4 trillion and you become broke, it means you’ve not been doing something right.
“There is so much want in Akwa Ibom. There are real men who have lived a life of contentment in the past, but today they can’t feed their family,” Mr. Toyo said.
The former PDP state chairman said he remained unfulfilled after 40 years in public service because of the state of affairs in his state. He said what he was witnessing now wasn’t the kind of Akwa Ibom he envisaged when he conducted the governorship primary that produced Mr. Akpabio.
“I was looking for an Akwa Ibom where the state chairman of our party will call the government and say ‘listen, our party wants to achieve this, we are not here to build big houses and undergrounds and swimming pools, and local government chairmen buying 20 cars and building houses all over the country.”