Independent
ABUJA – The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio has been described as one who left a footprint in the history of Akwa Ibom State.
The Prelate Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence, Sunday Uche, said this at the Interfaith Roundtable On Building A Culture of Peace a d Unity in Our Country, organized by the Harvest Committee of Methodist Church Nigeria, Cathedral of Unity, in Abuja.
Prelate Uche who said the former governor left behind shoes too large for others to wear in the State, noted that the former Senate Minority Whip turned the state around through free and compulsory education from primary and secondary school. He transformed the state and left it far better than he met it.”
Presenting an award of “Icon of Peace and Unity” to the former governor who was represented by Etekamba Umoren, Chief of Staff to the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, the Methodist Prelate added that “former governor Akpabio and the incumbent Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, left a very big shoe behind that is still very difficult to fill.”
