A renowned father of the Christian faith and Grand Pontif of God’s Heritage Centre Worldwide, Archbishop Josef Bassey, has spoken glowingly of the Governor of Cross River, Senator Bassey Otu’s impact on the state and its people since he mounted the saddle, describing his first one year as “absolutely miraculous.”
The Archbishop made the assertion during a media interaction in his office in Calabar.
“Governor Bassey Otu’s one year in office was miraculous in many ways. As a privileged citizen of the state, I am aware of what the state of the state was. Nothing was working, we witnessed eight years of total robbery and destruction of every thing of value in the state. Nothing was spared, our institutions, assets, values, standard operating systems of governments, etc. Cross River state was taken backward by at least 100 years. The gains of all previous governments where eroded while the state was being plundered to death. So I know like many informed Cross Riverians do that the Governor inherited a dying state, empty treasuries with virtually all bank accounts in red and a huge dead burden. It was a most tragic situation. I wept for years watching the decimation of what was once a most glorious and enviable state.
“It is therefore amazing that in one year, the Governor Otu administration has been able to breathe life into virtually every facet of the state. I see a tireless work at restoring, rebuilding and rebirthing taking place everywhere: the civil service, education, health, ease of doing business, infrastructural rehabilitation and development etc
“This is simply nothing but a miracle in progress, and I appreciate God for it, because the prayers of the saints over the years for the deliverance and redemption of Cross River from the hitherto comatose situation we found ourselves has been answered. We can only pray and believe God that in the following years, with Governor Otu continuing in that same direction, Cross River will enter into her most glorious day,” the revered cleric expounded.
He prophesied that under God, with the massive infrastructural interventions going on in the state as well as other farsighted policies, programmes and projects the present administration is carrying out, Cross River, before the end of Governor Otu’s tenure, would have been transformed to its truest status as a paradise of sort in Nigeria.
Archbishop Bassey, who is also the leader of Cross River State Christian Leaders Forum, reiterated that the present administration has put up an uncommon show of maturity in leadership in the last 12 months, bolstering that, “I have not heard the Governor come to the public to complain about the troubles of the state or the countless disasters he met on arrival. That means that Cross Riverians are blessed with a governor who clearly understands that leadership is about responsibility.”
“I want to, on behalf of Cross River State Christian Leaders Forum, Cross River Project Stakeholders Roundtable, Calabar Charismatic Episcopacy, and God’s Heritage Centres worldwide, wish the Governor greater wisdom, strength, good health and favour of God, as he continues to pilot the affairs of the state in this second year and the remaining years of his tenure.”