AYADE :The Uncommon Visionary And His Revolutionary Initiatives ~ Egbara

March 5,2019

Egbara Emmanuel Ikaba.

At the inauguration of AYADE led government on May 29, 2015, Senator Benedict AYADE, was acutely conscious of the dire situation he was inheriting as chief executive of the civil service state; there was a huge pile of unsettled bills from obligations his predecessors had been unable to meet before exiting office, while the main source of revenue for the state government-crude oil-was no longer there and potent as the soul would wish, as it is said in ancient Africa.

Obviously, there was going to be a gargantuan challenge, in the light of this unwholesome development. That was the evident fact.

However, curiously, there was yet another disturbing angle to the fact of the situation as depicted above; there had been a groundswell of expectation of the government from the public on account of two factors-the perception of the personage of Senator Benedict AYADE as a stellar performer(hence his alluring sobriquet of Digital, meaning the modern leader ), as well as the fact of his appealing electioneering campaign promises to take Cross river state to a dizzying new height of uncommon performance.

Against the backdrop of these two virtually opposite scenarios, a herculean challenge was in the offing: How was the administration going to meet the huge bagful of expectation from the enthusiastic Cross riverians, and how, if any, was it to carve a middle course of action-by way of pragmatic, potent policies and programmes-to deliver top-grade services from the public main, to meet the people’s yearnings? That was the dilemma, and it was no mean one.

Senator Benedict AYADE, quite aware, as I said
in the opening paragraphs of this write up, of the herculean situation he was inheriting, was mentally and psychologically prepared for the task ahead, heavy and almost insurmountable as it were.

On this account, he vowed, before a motley crowd of expectant supporters and well-wishers, to don things in a way positively different from the past.

Consequently, he promptly unfolded his Enterprise Agenda, which dovetail, in effect, the desire to create new pathways to reaching the dream goal of enhanced service delivery from the public mains, on the revolutionary benchmark of cost-efficiency.

Specifically, the spirit of enterprise Agenda refers to Strategic Wealth Creation and provision of jobs for all Cross riverians; Meaningful Peace Building Platforms ,aimed at political and social stability; Agricultural Reforms and Accelerated industrialisation; Relevant Health and educational policies and Transformed Environment through Urban Renewal.

In all, the spirit of enterprise captures in one hypodermic needle effect, all of the impressive development initiatives of the Ayade government, ranging from agriculture, through health, housing, power/energy, transportation, human capital enhancement and all else.

Now, some three-and-a quarter years after the introduction of the operational code of the spirit of enterprise, the administration has deployed its core elements to telling effect in the areas of road development, power enhancement, job and wealth creation, human capital development, food production, healthcare delivery, etc.

The result?
It can be couched most appropriately in the truism inherent in the wise saying among the yala people o, to the effect that nothing compares with the silk cotton for silkiness. Of that, there can be no sustainable argument to the contrary.

Let us support AYADE for continuity.