By Ekerete Udoh
At the thanksgiving service organized earlier today by the Catholic Dioceses of Ikot Ekpene in honour of the immediate past Governor of the state, now the distinguished Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency, Senator Godswill Akpabio, held at St, Anne Cathedral, Ifuho, Ikot Ekpene, Governor Udom Emmanuel had in his remarks, quoted John chapter 12 verses 6 and 7, whose deeper interpretation was a call for altruism, to eschew selfish impulses and the need to put the interest of the people far above personal or pecuniary considerations.
The governor had enjoined the audience and indeed the larger society to see the ennobling ideals in providing people-centric service, which in his considered opinion, the immediate past governor had exemplified. He urged the naysayers and those who do not see the redeeming value in government to stop demonizing their leaders.
Public service according to the governor is a call to duty; to see how one can use the awesome instrument and power of government to advance the common good, to create opportunity for all and to provide the enabling environment for our people to dream and dare. That can be done when we enthrone transparency and show a deep and abiding concern for the poor and to protect our commonwealth form being pilfered as was the case with the thief in the bible verse above.
Governor Emmanuel has spoken at most public outings about the need to enthrone a culture of transparency, civility, humility, selflessness and those values represent the thrust of his message at the thanksgiving service and not what some cranks on the social media, had concocted.
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