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EKONG SAMPSON CAMPAIGN ORGANIZATION

February 27, 2023

Victory for Akwa Ibom South: An Appreciation

I do not know how well to thank the Almighty God and the people of Akwa Ibom South for this emphatic vote of confidence. I thank God and my great people – Oro, Ibibio, Ekid, Obolo – for joining hands firmly to send me to the Nigerian Senate.
I appreciate the weight of your high hopes to get the job in the National Assembly done for our Senatorial District fabulously endowed even with our rich diversity.

I thank our dear Governor, HE Udom Emmanuel for his sense of sacrifice, steadfastness and patriotism in terms of the Senate politics in Akwa Ibom South. I thank our great party, the People’s Democratic Party, my former boss in the Senate, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, my Campaign Organization ably led by my Director-General, Sir Michael Essang (KSJ), friends and various support groups for keeping faith with this mission of consolidation and rebirth.

I thank my wife, Matina who, symbolically, bought the Senate form for me – a fitting tribute to women’s latitude in the governance matrix – and the larger Idemimo family for standing by me, as always, throughout the Senate campaigns.

My victory is victory for Akwa Ibom South. I congratulate my opponents in the race, confident that, in a broad measure, we are all winners, united in an odyssey to tell the fuller story of the Akwa Ibom South potential.
In the same vein, I urge support for Pastor Umo Eno and other PDP candidates in the March 11, 2023 elections. The PDP has shown that it has capacity to reposition Nigeria. Indeed, policy must drive politics and strengthen our institutions.

May God continue to bless Akwa Ibom South, Akwa Ibom State and Nigeria.

Rt. Hon. (Barr.) Ekong Sampson, Ph.D
Onomkpoinam Mkpat Enin and Senator-elect, Akwa Ibom South.