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Cross River State Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke on Thursday offered explanations on his decision not to seek any elective office in 2015.
Speaking at a public lecture organized by Destiny Group to mark his 53 birthday at the Cultural Center, Calabar, Imoke said it is only leaders who feel insecure and looking for where to hide after leaving office that think of the next elective office while they are still in their current position.
“As the end of my term as governor continues to count, I look forward to it with joy and satisfaction. I will leave with peace and utmost satisfaction. A lot of people keep asking me, ‘Oga, are you not going to contest for an election when you leave as governor?’
“I tell them that I will leave office with so much peace and satisfaction that I will not contemplate running for another office. It is only those who are insecure and are looking for where to hide that plot for the next office even when they are yet to serve out their current term” he stated.
Stressing the need for leaders to build a new generation of leaders, the Governor said: “I strongly believe that as leaders, if there is one thing we must do as a matter of deliberate policy is to build a new generation of leaders. If we keep moving from or running in one office to the other without creating opportunities for a younger or a new generation, then society will never evolve and there will be no purposeful leadership.”
Imoke who reechoed the decision of the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to zone the governorship in the 2015 election to the Northern Senatorial district charged the people to look for someone who will give them purposeful leadership.
“As we collectively look for our new governor from the Northern Senatorial District, we must do so in the hope that he or she will give us purposeful leadership and development.”
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