The NAIG condemned gesture which it claimed was a case of robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Akpabio, they said, deserved praises “for his commitment and leadership; his vigorous pursuit of programs and activities aimed at providing basic education for Akwa Ibom youth, and for accelerating the pace of infrastructural and rural development in Akwa Ibom State”.

Today, I promise we will give you a new market. Somebody will go with you now to show you so that whoever wants to buy second hand cloths can come there. Everybody must get space to trade there without molestation. but you must promise me that everybody must go there to sell.

“They must know that no matter what happens in the state after crisis, an Ijaw man will still be the governor and the issue of impeachment is not like the one conducted under Obasanjo’s government. It will be cumbersome and not needed in the state.”

“Every state in the Federal Republic of Nigeria be permitted by law to control its resources; abrogation and repeal of all laws that expropriate the rights of the people to control their resources, such as Territorial Waters Act, Cap.T4 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.