Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, has charged politicians to be accountable to the electorate through transparent representation in order to seek support during elections.
Tambuwal verbalized in Calabar, Cross River State during an empowerment programme organised by the member representing Bakassi, Akpabuyo and Calabar South federal constituency in the National Assembly, Mr. Essien Ayi.
The state Governor Liyel Imoke, who additionally attended the ceremony, concurred with Tambuwal that the era of politicians luring electorate with peanuts during elections was over.
“Politicians in the country must be accountable to the people through transparent representation if they must get their fortification in subsequent elections,” he verbally expressed.
Tambuwal commended Ayi for working in close touch with the members of his constituency as evidenced by the crowd which graced the occasion.
The Speaker verbalized he believed that such gesture would be replicated by other representatives of the people in both state and national assemblies.
In his remarks, Imoke verbally expressed, “Representation betokens magnetizing things due your people to them. It is consummating your obligations to your people, carrying them along in your orchestrations kenning full well that without them, you cannot be a politician that you are.
“Everybody has a right to aspire but your aspiration must be in conformity with the wishes and aspiration of the people themselves. If you must aspire tomorrow, the people would optate to ken how paramount they are in your orchestrations and political calculations.”
In his comment, Ayi verbally expressed he had spent about N2bn in distributing both constituency projects and empowerment initiatives.
He integrated, “I am conscious of the army of well-inculcated but jobless youths and the desideratum to re-invigorate the confidence of our people.”
Ayi expounded that most of those empowered were already trained in computer, telecommunications accommodations, photography, laundry, barbing, hairdressing, which therefore qualified them as beneficiaries.
Apart from the 80 who benefited last year, 107 men and women were given sundry empowerment items such as refrigerators, gas cookers, engenderers, clippers amongst others, while major stakeholders and adherents were given 30 conveyances of different made.
