{"id":78948,"date":"2021-03-04T16:01:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T15:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=78948"},"modified":"2021-03-04T16:01:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T15:01:48","slug":"cross-river-2023-the-unfolding-political-equation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/cross-river-2023-the-unfolding-political-equation\/","title":{"rendered":"CROSS RIVER 2023: The Unfolding Political Equation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Kennedy Onyegbado.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Ben Ayade in more ways than one, has taken a bold step in<br \/>\ndefining the developmental roadmap for Cross River state as the<br \/>\n&#8216;Nation&#8217;s paradise&#8217;. His succession calls for a prudent manager of<br \/>\nresources, an administrator of proven track record and a level headed<br \/>\npolitician.<\/p>\n<p>Perceptibly, the state has had more than its fair share of political<br \/>\ncontroversies and litigations that should not continue in the future.<br \/>\nThere is indeed a big and urgent task to be accomplished for a greater<br \/>\nCross River state.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the focus at this critical juncture should be on how the 2023<br \/>\nelectoral process can throw up the best kind of leader for the task of<br \/>\nputting the people first in the resource mobilization and allocation for<br \/>\nenhanced development of the state.<\/p>\n<p>The unfolding political equation in Cross River is as fascinating as it<br \/>\nis worrying. This is because of the waiting game the APC and other<br \/>\nparties in opposition are playing. The APC is waiting and watching with<br \/>\nkeen interest to see if there can be any miscalculation on the part of<br \/>\nthe PDP with respect to the emergence of a gubernatorial flag bearer.<br \/>\nAny miscalculation on the part of any political party can turn out to be<br \/>\nmore expensive for it than ever imagined.<\/p>\n<p>The crucial question at this stage is what will constitute a<br \/>\nmiscalculation on the part of any political party in the state? Without<br \/>\nbeing evasive, the most striking will be to pick a candidate outside the<br \/>\nSouthern Senatorial District of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Detectably, Governor Donald Duke was from the Southern Senatorial<br \/>\nDistrict, Governor Liyel Imoke was from the Central Senatorial District<br \/>\nand the incumbent Governor Ben Ayade is from the Northern Senatorial<br \/>\nDistrict. According to the prevailing zoning arrangements, it is<br \/>\nexpected that power will return to the Southern Senatorial District come<br \/>\n2023.<\/p>\n<p>Again, Cross Riverians want a grassroot governor who is at home with the<br \/>\npeople and the environment and is readily accessible to the people. The<br \/>\npolitical parties will also do well to watch out for politicians with<br \/>\nbaggage of liabilities, litigations and EFCC invitations as unlikely<br \/>\nelection winners.<\/p>\n<p>Miscalculation on the part of any party can also be the investment of<br \/>\nits ticket on a politician who has been known to serially abuse the<br \/>\npublic trust and collective confidence bestowed on him\/her.<\/p>\n<p>Cross Riverians, as democrats will have several ways of kicking against<br \/>\nany form of imposition of unpopular leadership that will owe its<br \/>\nlegitimacy to any other power source outside the people.<\/p>\n<p>2023 would be the time for Cross River state to make a resounding<br \/>\nstatement to the rest of the country on a democratic process of<br \/>\nleadership emergence. Imposition is out of it while character and<br \/>\ncontent of aspiration are critical for public evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>This is where Engr. Ben Etim Akak comes in with a progressive ideology<br \/>\nand agenda. It will only take a bridge builder like him to navigate<br \/>\nthrough our experience to offer a viable promise. It is here experience<br \/>\ncounts &#8211; A blend of the public, cum private matrix is enough experiment<br \/>\nto provide the proper and fit dose for our ailment.<\/p>\n<p>Engr. Ben Etim Akak is a Nigerian Philanthropist, entrepreneur,<br \/>\npolitician and administrator; a Prince of the Eburutu axis of the Efik<br \/>\nEfik Eburutu Kingdom, precisely from Ukwa Eburutu in Odukpani Local<br \/>\nGovernment Area of Cross River State.<\/p>\n<p>Born in the early 80s, he is a young man who has tasted the pains of<br \/>\nmaybe, not eating three times in a day like every other and most<br \/>\nNigerian child who was born and bred with no golden spoon. He has also<br \/>\ntasted wealth out of hard work, the undying and unconquering spirit of<br \/>\nthe Nigerian child and above all, through the unmerited Grace and<br \/>\nunlimited Favor of God.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Engr. Ben Etim Akak is the Chairman\/CEO Bengies Group of<br \/>\nCompanies that has interest in Real Estate, Construction, Oil\/Gas and<br \/>\nthe entertainment industries. He has built businesses from scratch to<br \/>\nstardom most of which are located in Cross River State, such as, Bengies<br \/>\nBakeries and others, having over 700 Cross Riverians on payroll as<br \/>\nworkers.<\/p>\n<p>Two years after his graduation from the University, 2004 to be precise,<br \/>\nhe and others formed the Margaret Ekpo Foundation where he was made the<br \/>\nExecutive Secretary, and his duties included amongst others; the<br \/>\ncoordination of the other arms of the Foundation, Board of Trustees and<br \/>\nday to day running of the Foundation to deliver on the mandate of<br \/>\nmeeting the needs of the needy, protecting the rights of women, the<br \/>\ngirl-child and other vulnerable children within our society.<\/p>\n<p>Engr. Akak has also worked and headed different companies and groups<br \/>\nsuch as, Czer Continental Services Limited where he was the Executive<br \/>\nChairman from 2009 to 2015; M.O.E Resource Enterprise where he was in<br \/>\ncharge of General Administration\/Business Development and later<br \/>\nConsultant Oil Palm Development and Marketing.<\/p>\n<p>Engr. Ben Etim Akak&#8217;s desire and quest to see a developed Cross River<br \/>\nState in particular, and Nigeria in general, has seen him in most times<br \/>\nvolunteer his knowledge, wealth and everything in him for the betterment<br \/>\nof the society. He is versatile with huge coverage, exposure and<br \/>\nexperience in corporate governance.<\/p>\n<p>As have been noticed about him in several fora, he believes that until<br \/>\nCross River State is administered like a business where the CEO of the<br \/>\nbusiness understands the pains in loosing and the gains in winning,<br \/>\nCross River State may not survive the next 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>To him, having known the current level of debt, both external and<br \/>\ninternal that Cross River State is into now, there is need to search for<br \/>\nCross Riverians with technical minds wherever they may be to see how<br \/>\ntogether they can divest the state&#8217;s interest from borrowing and<br \/>\nconcentrate more on utilizing waste water resources through the state&#8217;s<br \/>\nbodies of water and take advantage of the fact that it is a border<br \/>\nState.<\/p>\n<p>Also, he is worried that while other border States like Lagos, Ogun and<br \/>\nsome others are having thriving economies that have created Jobs for the<br \/>\nunemployed in those states, the Mfum border is dormant.<\/p>\n<p>Again, Engr. Ben Akak has faith in collaborative development of Cross<br \/>\nRiver State where everyone one and idea matters. He trusts that job<br \/>\nemployment, sound education through the provision of basic and improved<br \/>\nteaching tools in schools, a systematic shift to mechanized Agriculture<br \/>\nfor improved food production and urgent basic infrastructural<br \/>\ndevelopment is what Cross River needs to reduce crime and insecurity in<br \/>\nthe State.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of his strategy for development is wealth creation. He<br \/>\ncontemplates that government if handled with the right attitude and<br \/>\npurposeful leadership will perform optimally. Thus, his development<br \/>\nnarratives is premised on the tenets that an efficient government is<br \/>\npossible and can provide an industrialized economy with full employment,<br \/>\nprice stability, high output and net export.<\/p>\n<p>It cannot be gainsaid nor overemphasized that Industrialization is<br \/>\nfundamental to the quest of devising a means to supporting small scale<br \/>\nbusinesses in Cross River State owned by natives\u00a0 and the thrive to<br \/>\nreduce youths dependability on white Collar jobs alone, which has<br \/>\ncreated the impression that Cross River State is a civil service State.<\/p>\n<p>This approach, according to Akak, will enable the setting up of Cottage<br \/>\nIndustries in all the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/l.g.as\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/L.G.As&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1614955686003000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGrr4VOYKRcQKs3TVGv2E4Ue7ooWg\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">L.G.As<\/a>\u00a0in the State, leading to job creations for<br \/>\nthe youths and woman via skills acquisition and empowerment, thereby<br \/>\nmaking them self-reliant and employers of labour. This could be captured<br \/>\nwith a greater framework that is inclusive and comprehensive.<\/p>\n<p>More so, Engr. Akak relies on the deployment of agricultural revolution,<br \/>\nthe creation and merger of an industrial base to serve as catalyst for<br \/>\nan African economic hub in Cross River State and takeoff point for the<br \/>\nNigerian project.<\/p>\n<p>His vision is to see how Cross River State can encourage natives to go<br \/>\ninto large scale fishing business on the water ways with fishing trolls<br \/>\nthat will create multiple chain of businesses and create employment for<br \/>\nour youths.<\/p>\n<p>He cited the situation where China is currently controlling the water<br \/>\nways with returns in billions to their own country with no positive<br \/>\nimpact on Cross River State. He decries the situation where all business<br \/>\nin Calabar and other cities in Cross River State are owned by outsiders.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, Akak&#8217;s inclusive economic development model is a platform that<br \/>\nseeks to reinvent government as critical site and realm in production,<br \/>\ndistribution, exchange and consumption in the economic sphere.<\/p>\n<p>Undoubtedly, his governance developmentalism strategy is positioned to<br \/>\nmake government as fountain of mobilizing resource towards effective<br \/>\ncompetition and building of a comparative advantage economy.<\/p>\n<p>Broadly, the thrust of his developmental and infrastructural model is<br \/>\nanchored on the principle of Public &#8211; Private Partnership (PPP), with a<br \/>\nvision to create a deliberate distribution and redistribution of<br \/>\nprojects that is inclusive, comprehensive and entrenches its core<br \/>\nfoundation on mass participation, grass-root involvement and passionate<br \/>\ncommitment.<br \/>\nOn the one hand, his economic model is built as a bottom-up approach<br \/>\nfrom the grass-root to get communities economically viable to increase<br \/>\nInternally Generated Revenue (IGR) and stimulate the economy.<\/p>\n<p>This is a hybrid cluster of home grown community economic model that<br \/>\nwill mobilize equal opportunity for all to create an import substitution<br \/>\nframework in conserving and generating wealth.<\/p>\n<p>In doing this, as he pointed out, the community will own the process and<br \/>\ngains of the model with the State acting as facilitator. This brand of<br \/>\ndevelopment will only focus on developing and articulating all sectors<br \/>\nof the economy, in order to harmonize and promote circular flow of<br \/>\nincome to significantly multiply within the economy, leaving little or<br \/>\nno opportunity for wastages.<\/p>\n<p>Technology incubation centres will be created along each sector of the<br \/>\neconomy to allow for the growth and development of the human capability<br \/>\nto contribute enormously to their wellbeing. The financial and<br \/>\nstabilizing fund for each sector development will be created to provide<br \/>\nfor a robust and unhindered participation of all. Mentorship programme<br \/>\nshall be created for all incubation centres and follow up with<br \/>\nentrepreneur build-up agenda.<br \/>\n2023 therefore will be another defining historical moment of political<br \/>\nrealism, of realignments and bridge building to secure a greater Cross<br \/>\nRiver State for the coming generation. Today&#8217;s decisions have got far<br \/>\nreaching implications for the future both as a people and as a state.<\/p>\n<p>*Kennedy Onyegbado is a Media and Research Expert, he writes from<br \/>\nAbuja-Nigeria (<a href=\"mailto:gbadoka@yahoo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">gbadoka@yahoo.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kennedy Onyegbado. Governor Ben Ayade in more ways than one, has taken a bold step in defining the developmental roadmap for Cross River state as the &#8216;Nation&#8217;s paradise&#8217;. 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