The Akwa Ibom gover
nor, Mr Udem Emmanuel says he is not afraid of a re-run election in view of the nullification of his election by Court of Appeal recently.
Governor Emmanuel who was speaking in a statewide broadcast said he would go to Supreme Court to challenge the verdict of the Court of Appeal, stressing that Akwa Ibom was not for sale.
‘The judgement of the court did not only challenge your right to elect your leaders, it challenged our right to rebuild our and to pursue our happiness without having to sell our commonwealth to those who do not wish us well.
“We refuse to believe that the fundamentals of justice have been so eroded that a people can be brazenly raped and denied their rights to choose their leaders according to their free will.
“We are not afraid of a re-run but we would not allow a judgement which would pose a dangerous precedent in the finals of our history stand unchallenged.
“It would be a callous disservice to the course of justice in our nation. Consequently, we will exercise our constitutional rights by appealing the judgment at the Supreme Court.
“Neither our state nor the promise of this land is on sale to the highest bidders. We will not sacrifice our commonwealth at the altar of personal ambitions.
“We will not foreclose our children further because of the inordinate ambitions of some Sanballats. The farther of Akwa Ibom people is greater and more important than anybody’s ambition.
“Those who oppose my administration have claimed that we are an appendage of the last administration. That is not true. We are an improvement on the last administration.
“The last administration took us out of Egypt to the Jordan River. This administration is taking us across the Jordan River into the Promised Land. This administration is here to lift us up above those people who once under-estimated us,” he said.