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Hon. Aniekan Bassey is the member representing Uruan State Constituency in the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly. He spoke to newsmen on sundry issues. Excerpts:

You came into the House of Assembly in June, 2015. How far, so far?

I came into the House of Assembly by the special Grace of God. Not because I was too good as a politician. Of course I was not a politician. I was into business. My people saw the little contributions I have made so far over the years. By the grace of God, I have contributed immensely to the development of Uruan youths. Anywhere I am opportune to meet indigenes of Uruan, I support them in no small measure. So it was through popular demand that the people of my constituency said that I should represent them in the House of Assembly. And by the help of God, I went into the PDP primaries, I won convincingly. I went into the general elections and I won. I went to the tribunal, I think I was one of the first in my state to win my tribunal case and the first to have victory at the Court of Appeal.

Why I didn’t emerge as Speaker of Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly – Hon. Aniekan Bassey

Hon. Aniekan Bassey

The Member Representing Uruan State Constituency in the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Hon. Aniekan Bassey has stated why he didn’t emerge as the Speaker of the assembly after the Court of Appeal sacked immediate past Speaker, Hon. Aniekan Uko. In an interview with newsmen recently in his office, the businessman cum politician said the issue of him emerging Speaker of AKHA was purely speculative. Read below some excerpts from the interview:

“The issue of me being a Speaker was speculative. People thought since the Speakership position was zoned to Uyo Senatorial District, that I should emerge the speaker. So it was based on assumption that Uyo Federal Constituency should produce the speaker because the immediate past speaker was from Uyo Federal Constituency (Ibesikpo Asutan to be precise). People thought either Uruan, Uyo or Nsit Attai should produce the Speaker. But speakership is more than that. You have to look at capacity and you have to look at what we are facing at this particular time. I believe that the Speaker that we have is the best for the moment. He has the capacity. He is a former Students Union president and former Speaker of the Nigerian Youth Parliament. He has the capacity to lead us at this time.