Asuquo Ekpenyong Jr eulogises Governor Ayade on his 2021 Blueprint Newspaper Award

Cross River State Commissioner for Finance, Mr Asuquo Ekpenyong Jr has congratulated the Governor of Cross River State, Senator Prof Ben Ayade, on his award as Blueprint Newspaper Agro-Industrialization Governor of the year during the Blueprint Newspapers 10th Anniversary and Impact Series and Awards 2021 on Thursday in Abuja.

In a congratulatory message personally signed by him and made available to the newsmen on Thursday evening he described the Governor's Award as well deserved following the massive infrastructural and human capacity development being carried out by him as never seen before in the history of the state.

“We are very much aware of your revolutionary and massive provision of agro industrialization and physical infrastructures spread across the state; the human capacity development of the people which has seen Cross River State maintain first position in Agro industrialization and the training of Cross River youths on Agro production at no cost to them to improve their entrepreneurial expertise, thereby putting them ahead of their peers from other places.

“The aggressive way you have also marketed the ‘Made in Cross River State’ products both locally and internationally, has not only put the State on the global map of technological and entrepreneurial advancement, leading to monumental increase in the patronage of goods produced in the State, but it has also turned the ‘Made in Cross River’ concept into a phenomenon that can no longer be derided but reckoned with worldwide”.

"We are therefore not surprised that you won the 2021 Blueprint Newspapers Award. “Surely, better days are ahead for Cross Riverians under your remaining 2 years”, the statement concluded.

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