It is certain that come 2015 the next executive governor of Akwa Ibom State
shall come from the Niger Delta of the state, Eket senatorial district. It is now a matter of who among the army of credible, experienced, tested and exposed politicians, professionals, business gurus and technocrats in that section of the state shall wear the crown, but definitely, one of them shall be crowned on 29th May,2015.
It is their natural and divine time and no person or group of persons can stop them.
It tantamount to greed, desperation, and daylight robbery for anybody in Uyo or Ikot Ekpene senatorial district to challenge Eket senatorial district in 2015.
As demonstrated in the pictural fact below, since 1987 when the state was created, Uyo senatorial district has produced three governors of the state and Ikot Ekpene senatorial district has produced one, the incumbent, while Eket senatorial district is yet to take a shot at the number one position in the state, despite the fact that it is the biggest of the three senatorial districts and the revenue provider and economic backbone of the state.
So much ill-gotten money has been squandered by some desperate hawks on their agents to campaign against the time-honored zoning and power-rotation system with a view to supplanting it to pave way for the realization of their inordinate ambitions but Akwa Ibom people are too enlightened for them to hoodwink with their cheap lies.
Zoning and power-rotation has come to stay in our socio-political life and there is nothing anybody can do to undermine and supplant it.
Eight out of every ten Akwa Ibomites have resolved to elect the next governor of the state from Eket senatorial district in the spirit of brotherhood, accommodation and communality among our people.
Whatever anybody may say, it is on record that the immediate past governor of the state, Obong Victor Attah, had publicly endorsed the rotation of the office of the governor of the state to Ikot Ekpene senatorial district in 2007 and that was instrumental to the emergence of the present governor of the state, Chief Godswill Akpabio.
It is also on record that the leadership of the party under Rt. Hon.Uwem Ita Etuk had in September 2009,voted unanimously to retain the governorship ticket of the party in 2011 in Ikot Ekpene senatorial district to enable them do two terms like Uyo senatorial district and zone the 2015 ticket to Eket senatorial district.
It is therefore common sense that Chief Akpabio shall hand-over to a successor from Eket senatorial district to complete the circle.
It is therefore futile and fool-hardy for any person or group of persons outside Eket senatorial district to campaign to be governor in 2015.
As inordinate, blind and unpopular such aspirations are ,it is certain that they will not stand the test of time because something cannot stand on nothing