‘All Gov Eno Wants From Tinubu Is Ibom Deep Seaport’, Akpabio Tells VP Shettima

Wednesday October 29, 2025
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By Idorenyin UMOREN

Nigeria’s Senate President Chief Dr Godswill Akpabio has appealed to Vice President Kashim Shettima to help ensure the realisation of the Ibom Deep Seaport project in Akwa Ibom State.

Speaking at an event organised in honour of VP Shettima in Uyo, Dr Akpabio, a former governor of the state, told the vice president that Governor Umo Eno was making the only request to President Bola Tinubu’s administration for the Deep Seaport.

“The vice president, when you and the president are there, please remember my state. All Governor Eno is looking for from the federal government now is just a Deep Seaport to complement the progress of the state,” Chief Akpabio said.

“It is the Deep Seaport,” he said repeatedly.

Mr Shettima was in the state to attend the burial of late Eno Usoro, the mother of the Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Emem Usoro.

“All the members of the National Assembly are behind the governor. Akwa Ibom is grateful to the president for making an Akwa Ibom daughter the Central Bank deputy governor,” Senator Akpabio said, recalling that an indigene of the state and former governor of the old Cross River State, Clement Isong, last held the position of governor of the bank over 40 years ago.