Following media smear campaigns against Obudu, Bekwarra and Obanliku Federal Constituency producing the next Senator of Cross River North, Emmanuel Olayi has appealed to Governor Bassey Otu to endure that the principle of equity is upheld. Olayi made the appeal during a meeting with the governor at the Government House, Calabar.
He disclosed that the state operates a rotational office sharing which has allowed for inclusion, easing political tension and that such camaraderie arrangements which has favored many in the past should not be truncated by the self-serving individuals whose interests are at variance with equity and justice.
Using his current office as the State Chairman of NYCN as a litmus experiment, Olayi stated that his emergence was as a result of the application of the principle of equity which made other contenders in the Yala/Ogoja constituency to rescind their aspirations because their constituency had already produced a chairman.
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“As a young person, there’s one word I like so much which is ‘Equity’. When I ran for the office to be state Youth Chairman from our senatorial district, one of the arguments we had for so long was that, the office of the chairman of Youth Council is rotational and when we had that contest, we had our brother who ran from the other Federal constituency, and we came together as youths of Northern Cross River and agreed that we should do like our elders do and God’s Providence I became Chairman.”
Emmanuel Olayi further stated that the Back-to-South agitation, which he was fully involved, gave credence to the principle of equity which returned the governorship back to the Southern senatorial district after having gone to through to the Central Senatorial district and completed with North.
He also faulted calls by certain individuals to alter the zoning formula, saying that such double standards should not be allowed to hold water.
The Governor in his response, reaffirmed the leadership potentials of Olayi, assuring that the things would be done rightly.
