Dr Asibong Celebrates Annual Year-end Christmas With Calabar South Youths, APC Stakeholders during Yuletide

Saturday, December 25, 2021 will forever remain indelible in the memory of the Calabar South youths, women and widows as the Cross River State Commissioner for International Development Cooperations, Dr Inyang Asibong celebrated Christmas with constituents in grand style.

Asibong also hosted the APC Stakeholders in the most populated Local Governmen Areat in Cross River State in delivering the goodwill of her principal, the Governor of Cross River State, Senator Prof. Ben Ayade at Christmas.

The MIDC Commissioner who is also an *Obonganwan and Eka Unwana (The Queen and Mother of Light)* in the Efut Kingdom, also shared the vision of prosperity of her principal by sharing the joyous future ahead in the APC led Administration in the state for the youths, women and the entire people of Cross River State, starting from Calabar South Local Government Area.

The Commissioner's annual year-end Christmas Celebration which witnessed distribution of food items and cash, according to Asibong, began five years ago to show gratitude to the people of Càlabar South and to spread the message of hope and development, as championed by Governor Ayade to the people through her.

She used the one-off occasion to call on the good people of Calabar South not to allow prevalent perilous situations in the country deny them the feasible developments put in place by Governor Ayade in Cross River State.

*"Despite the lean resource the state gets, Cross River is not owing salaries and pension, yet have feasible industries littered across all the local government areas of the State. This is a mark that Governor Ayade works like a trailblazer who wants the best for his people"* she said.

The celebration was also extended to the children and Students within the catchment locality, with different traditional troupes displaying the rich Efik cultural heritage welcoming various guests who came from far and near to celebrate with *Ayade* in Càlabar South through Inyang Asibong.

*See photos from the get-together*

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