The Akwa Ibom governor, Udom Emmanuel, said the state has made meaningful progress since its creation 32 years.
Akwa Ibom, created out of the then Cross River state on September 23, 1987 by the Ibrahim Babangida-led military administration, has a vast deposit of oil and gas, and is one of Nigeria's richest states because of its earnings from the country's crude oil export.
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