The Francophone Governor of Cross River State in Nigeria: Reviewing Ayade’s First Class Achievement
- First Nigerian to make a First Class that turned into a Second Class Lower inside the cupboard.
- First Ph.D Student that became a professor in less than 6 months without a textbook or research seminars and papers.
- First Environmental Scientist to invent a water remediation plant using solar panels but without the design template.
- Assumed First youngest governor, only that Donald was younger.
- First governor from Northern Cross River State and from Obudu.
- First governor to be self appointed commissioner of tourism in Nigeria.
- First governor to ever conceive a digital superhighway in Nigeria. Only that it has no EIA from the beginning and the latest published EIA is haphazardly done.
- First governor to want a Deep Seaport paid for in advance.
- First governor to dream about a garment factory with computer operated sawing machines. It is not the first and not the biggest in Africa. The biggest is in Ethiopia. And the cost of construction is a little over 238.5 Million Naira equivalent.
- First Senator to conceive the Ogoja garment factory at 150 Million Naira. Now the same garment factory is 2.7 Billion Naira. Only two years afterwards. What has changed?
- First governor to dream about a Green Police. Wonderful idea.
- First governor to be decorated as the Field Marshal, I meant Inspector General of G. Police.
- First governor to allow waste on the streets of Calabar but wants to start a free wash your car campaign as a year celebration in office. What about washing our streets of toxic contaminants? Hmmm.
- First governor to pay workers salaries on the 1st of May. A reason that civil servant in Calabar took the strike serious as other State returned to work.
- Governor Ben Ayade is the first governor in Nigeria who hasn’t completed a single road after 360 days in office. And will be the worst governor without a road commissioning project in a year from the days of Esuene.
- First governor with the highest MoU in Nigeria.
- Inspector General, Ben Ayade is the first governor to revoke lands up to 20 kilometers either side of the road because of a superhighway.
- Commissioner Ayade is the highest travelled governor in Nigeria. Travelling 2 months at a stretch for one investment seeking trip that brought only MoU.
- What other achievements can you remember?
- First governor to run a soil sampling test abroad for a project at home.
- First governor without a blueprint.
- First governor to appoint a brother as co-governor.
