NEWLY SWORN-IN COMMISSIONERS IN AKWA IBOM STATE.
FEBRUARY 24TH, 2025 – BANQUET HALL, GOVERNMENT HOUSE, UYO
PROTOCOL:
1. Let me, on behalf of the Government and people of Akwa Ibom State, congratulate the newly sworn-in Commissioners/Special Advisers, who are now members of the State Executive Council.
Again, let me send my special thanks and appreciation to the Speaker of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Rt. Honourable Udeme Otong, and the Honourable members for the speedy screening and clearance of the then nominees, who are now our brand-new Honourable Commissioners.
2. Permit me to also use this opportunity to express our profound gratitude once again to the members of the immediate past Executive Council for their service to the State.
You came, you did your part, and we will remain eternally grateful for your contributions to the development of our State.
3. To the newly sworn-in Commissioners, you have been privileged to be selected out of the 7.9 million people of this blessed State to provide service to your State.
Let me again reemphasize that your selection was the sole prerogative of the Governor, and this was based primarily on your proven capacities and ability to get the job done—not on ethnic or primordial considerations.
Your loyalty, therefore, is to the Governor and to the State.
4. This EXCO can be rightly referred to as: THE EXCO OF CONSOLIDATION AND EXPANSION – a Joseph’s Team. Like Joseph, you have been handed a vision as contained in our Arise Agenda.
You are to work collaboratively to interpret and deliver on those key planks of our governance blueprint for the betterment of our people and State.
Teamwork, unity, and passion are the ingredients we require from you.
5. In 2 Kings 4:38–41, the power of working together and looking out for the mistakes of others, so the common good and fidelity to causes higher than ours can be achieved, is again illustrated.
A near-fatal error by way of accidental poisoning of the meal prepared for collective consumption by one of the sons of the prophet was discovered.
Prophet Elisha, showing strong leadership and team spirit, found a solution to what could have been a fatal meal by adding flour to the poisoned meal.
That singular solution restored the meal and the lives of the prophets, and the collective good was achieved.
6. The above biblical story illustrates what the spiritual and psychological underpinnings of this EXCO are all about.
This EXCO, therefore, must be shaped by love, teamwork, unity of purpose, and the spirit of oneness—carrying each other along as partners rather than adversaries and being very observant so that we do not allow one person to destroy collective attainment.
7. You are to look for solutions and not engage in blame games while also working to tighten weak links and encourage deeper team spirit for the overall success of the team.
8. We have a blueprint, the ARISE Agenda, which in concrete and precise layers contains our dream for the development of our State.
Your role, like Joseph, is to help further interpret the dream and vision by working collaboratively to prepare our State and people for years of continuous economic growth and prosperity.
NEWLY SWORN-IN COMMISSIONERS IN AKWA IBOM STATE.
FEBRUARY 24TH, 2025 – BANQUET HALL, GOVERNMENT HOUSE, UYO
PROTOCOL:
1. Let me, on behalf of the Government and people of Akwa Ibom State, congratulate the newly sworn-in Commissioners/Special Advisers, who are now members of the State Executive Council.
Again, let me send my special thanks and appreciation to the Speaker of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Rt. Honourable Udeme Otong, and the Honourable members for the speedy screening and clearance of the then nominees, who are now our brand-new Honourable Commissioners.
2. Permit me to also use this opportunity to express our profound gratitude once again to the members of the immediate past Executive Council for their service to the State.
You came, you did your part, and we will remain eternally grateful for your contributions to the development of our State.
3. To the newly sworn-in Commissioners, you have been privileged to be selected out of the 7.9 million people of this blessed State to provide service to your State.
Let me again reemphasize that your selection was the sole prerogative of the Governor, and this was based primarily on your proven capacities and ability to get the job done—not on ethnic or primordial considerations.
Your loyalty, therefore, is to the Governor and to the State.
4. This EXCO can be rightly referred to as: THE EXCO OF CONSOLIDATION AND EXPANSION – a Joseph’s Team. Like Joseph, you have been handed a vision as contained in our Arise Agenda.
You are to work collaboratively to interpret and deliver on those key planks of our governance blueprint for the betterment of our people and State.
Teamwork, unity, and passion are the ingredients we require from you.
5. In 2 Kings 4:38–41, the power of working together and looking out for the mistakes of others, so the common good and fidelity to causes higher than ours can be achieved, is again illustrated.
A near-fatal error by way of accidental poisoning of the meal prepared for collective consumption by one of the sons of the prophet was discovered.
Prophet Elisha, showing strong leadership and team spirit, found a solution to what could have been a fatal meal by adding flour to the poisoned meal.
That singular solution restored the meal and the lives of the prophets, and the collective good was achieved.
6. The above biblical story illustrates what the spiritual and psychological underpinnings of this EXCO are all about.
This EXCO, therefore, must be shaped by love, teamwork, unity of purpose, and the spirit of oneness—carrying each other along as partners rather than adversaries and being very observant so that we do not allow one person to destroy collective attainment.
7. You are to look for solutions and not engage in blame games while also working to tighten weak links and encourage deeper team spirit for the overall success of the team.
8. We have a blueprint, the ARISE Agenda, which in concrete and precise layers contains our dream for the development of our State.
Your role, like Joseph, is to help further interpret the dream and vision by working collaboratively to prepare our State and people for years of continuous economic growth and prosperity.
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