A nongovernmental organization known as Civil Liberty Organization (CLO) has said Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom state did not marginalise Oro nation on board appointments.
The chairman of the organisation, Mr Franklyin Usong, stated this in a press release obtained by Blueprint Sunday in Uyo.
Subsequently, the CLO disagreed with the Oro Think Tank that said the governor had given so many appointments to indigenes of Oron federal constituency since his assumption of office in 2015 till date.
Oron Think Tank had last week accused Gov. Emmanuel of sidelining Oro federal constituency on board appointments in the state, saying that such an arrangement was generating bad blood among the people from the constituency.
The statement reads: “We share and completely agree with the fact that one of the cardinal responsibilities of a socio-political group is to agitate and advocate for the interest of the entity they speak for. However, while we are not holding brief for the government, we wish to disagree with the Oro Think Tank on the above issue.
“We observe that Governor Emmanuel, since his election in 2015 and re-election in 2019, has been fair in the distribution of appointments across the three senatorial districts and across the main ethnic groups that make up the state.
“As an international civil society organisation, which is a watchdog of the society, we would have long taken the governor to task if we had discovered any tinge of marginalisation, but the governor has been fair and balanced in the manner he has distributed political offices in the state.”
