By Daniel Abia
Snr Correspondent Port Harcourt
A governorship aspirant in Akwa Ibom State and first Professor Product of the University of Port Harcourt, Professor Richard King, has assured the youths of Akwa Ibom State that youths restiveness and violence among other social vices, will soon be a thing of the past if elected the governor of the state in the forthcoming governorship election.
King, who is the chairman of the Technical Sub-Committee, Presidential Monitoring Committee of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), gave the assurance in Uyo over the weekend at a meeting with the youths wing of his campaign organization, The Divine Mandate Organization (DMO).
Describing unemployment among the youths as worrisome and an ugly trend which requires urgent and sincere approach, the governorship aspirant said the youths of Akwa Ibom State will also be involved in the sharing of the Common Wealth or National Cake to give them a sense of belonging, through employment and other human capacity development of his government.
He said he abhors the politics of ethnicity which has reared its ugly head in the state in the last couple in years, stressing that the Unity and Cohesion of Akwa Ibom people despite their tribal or dialectal differences, will not be compromised by the administration.
“We must bring back to Akwa Abasibom State the unity and oneness for which our people are known for”, King posited.
He also admonished the youths from engaging themselves in acts capable of portraying them as having anti-social behaviors.
In her contribution, the wife of the governorship aspirant, Obongawan Laurel King, who is a Pharmacist/Nurse by training, described the youths as the tornadoes of the campaign organization.
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