2019: Students Group Begs Otu To Contest For Cross River South Senatorial Seat

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By; VITALIS UGOH, Calabar
Youth under the aegis of Southern Cross River state Students
(SOCRISS), has called on its Grand – Patron, Senator Bassey Otu, to run for the 2019 Senate elections.
The call was contained in a communique issued at the end of its meeting comprising representatives of the seven local government districts in Akamkpa Local Government Council.
They are also in support of the Northern Senatorial District
to complete the two-terms  of the Gubernatorial seat as provided for
in the peculiar zoning system in tandem with the Accord of 1980 which
the other two Districts have served since the return of democratic
rule in 1999.
The communiqué jointly endorsed by the President of SOCRISS Worldwide, Ntui  Hilary Ntui and the Secretary-General, Tete Ekpo Okon, said that “it is wish of the forum and the future generation to request  Senator Otu to heed to the clarion call in a bid to rescue the district from further misrepresentation and absence of potent voice at the National Assembly”.
The communique said “we hereby send a passionate SOS appeal and a clarion call to Distinguish Senator (Prince) Bassey Edet Otu to shirk off his
presence lethargy which may be misconstrued to suggest premature
retirement from politics and get ready to benefit from our massive
support during the 2019 elections for the Senate seat of Southern Senatorial District”.
It stated, “we also sustain the proviso of the 1980 Accord of the founding fathers regarding the rotation and zoning of the governorship position to the component parts which have been in vogue since the return of democratic rule in 1999..We support the Northern Senatorial  District to complete its
two-terms such that the South shall return in 2023 for purposes of
continuity,justice, quity and fair play”.
‘We have also observed with dismay that the affairs of our Senatorial district have not been given the relevant legislative muscle and the numerous youths which you groomed during your truncated tenure are now without positive future due to glaring misrepresentation, the communique noted”.
It also lamented over several national issues affecting the District which have not been projected to attract Federal government attention.
There are several of such negligence in our Senatorial District such as the unilateral ceding of the Bakassi Peninsular in breach of the Constitution of the Countrydevoid of due ratification by the National Assembly, irregular loss of 76 Oil wells and the accruable revenue, moribund Tinapa Resort, fraudulent
and failed dredging of the Calabar Port Channel, proposed privatisation
of the Cross River National Park as well as dwindling educational
infrastructure”.
”Others include the acute rate of unemployment, lack of empowerment for the youths and the needy and the loss of lives and property due to non permanent demarcation of inter-state boundary as is affects Odukpani, Biase between Akwa Ibom, Abia and Ebonyi states and incessant molestation of fishermen and Sea-farers by Cameroon Gendarmes.
It contended that the positive response of the Senator shall be their command as they vowed to swim and sink with him in the struggle for effective representation which he is noted for with track record in both chambers of the National Assembly.

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