By Idongesit Ashameri
Special Correspondent, Uyo
After 15 years of operations from various rented buildings, the Akwa Ibom State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has inaugurated committees to oversee construction of a permanent office complex within the next 12 months.
Inuagurating the Finance and Building committees on Thursday, the state Chairman of PDP, Obong Paul Ekpo, said the decision to have a permanent office complex was in line with the scriptural injunction at 2Samuel 7:10 that God’s people wïll dwell in a place of their own. Ekpo therefore called on members of the committees of Finance and Building headed by Mr.
Don Etim and Mr. Emmanuel Enoidem, respectively to brace themselves up and approach the project with speed.
Enumerating the responsibilities of the Finance Committee, Ekpo said, “the committee will embark on fund raising activities and solicitations for the party, provided that such activities and solicitations must be in comformity with the existing laws, establish business ventures that do not violate the provision of the constitution and organise a state chairman’s Annual fund Raising Dinner at which participants shall pay according to sitting arrangement”.
The Building Committee, according to the state chairman, shall: “Initiate and supervise mobilization of men and materials to site, ensure building and completion of the party’s state secretariat within the stipulated time and periodically brief the state Exco on the progress of the project”.
He expressed optimism that with the men and women of integrity selected to work in both committees, the dream to accord the party that has done so much for the state interms of visible and touchable life-touching projects, a befitting permanent accommodation will soon be translated to reality.
In his remarks, the Chairman of the Finance Committee and Commissioner for Works, Mr. Don Etim, considered need for a permanent office complex for Akwa Ibom PDP as long overdue and pledged to work as a team to finance the project with both cash and kind.
Emmanuel Enoidem, Commissioner for Special Duties, who is the Chairman of the Building Committee regretted that the party could not secure a permanent place to transact its businesses after 15 years of very active existence in the state and pledged to take it as a duty with grave indulgence.
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