Dr Alfred Mboto KSM the Permanent Secretary (Special Duties) at the Governor’s Office in Calabar, Cross River state, Saturday, celebrated Christmas Day and New Year’s Day with his Ovonum community, Obubra peoples NEGROIDHAVEN has garnered.
While addressing the crowd that gathered at the CRUTECH Field venue, Dr Mboto disclosed that he decided to convene the entire community to celebrate Christmas Day and New Year Day because of life. He added that he also convened them there to reawaken their consciousness to the reality that the All Progressives Congress, APC is the answer to all their questions of communal development.
According to him, ‘We are here because we want to celebrate Christmas and New Year. The celebration is shared from the little that we have and to reawaken us to knowing that if you were living in the dark, the wave has changed. The correct wave that is going to give you what you want is APC.’
Why Dr Alfred Mboto of Governor's Office celebrated with his Ovonum ward, Obubra peoples pic.twitter.com/KKDQp6yJIB
— NEGROID HAVEN (@NegroidHaven) February 1, 2022
‘APC in my ward decided to gather together to rejoice over the Christmas and New Year days that has passed for God keeping us together and to use this opportunity to rejig ourselves by knowing that we have to be at the right side. To be at the right side at any time as far as politics is concerned.
‘Today, the state has been socketed into the centre. So, every local government area, every ward, every village is supposed to be socketed at the centre.
‘So, I have used this opportunity to rejoice with my people, eat Christmas together, rejoice together and cause this other people who are still out of the boat to come down and join the boat for the new order’, he said while talking to the press.
Why Dr Alfred Mboto celebrated with his Ovonum ward, Obubra peoples pic.twitter.com/oyODRtFus3
— NEGROID HAVEN (@NegroidHaven) February 1, 2022
In a remark, Chief Ovaar Patrick Edum the Dane of Adum who expressed his pleasant surprise at the turn of events and informed that it was the first of its kind, prayed on behalf of other traditional rulers in the community that it should be better with Dr Mboto.
The event which was the first of its kind was well attended by the various segments of the Ovonum community including the traditional leadership, political leadership, women, men, youth, students bodies and children etc witnessed sundry traditional dances, speeches/presentations, prayers, eating/drinking and merriment.
