The Victor Attah Worldwide Airport, Uyo on Friday, December 8 wore an air of expectancy as dignitaries from far and close to gathered so as to add sauce to one of many crowning glories of Akwa Ibom State.
In a rustic the place governments have typically run companies aground or in deficit, Ibom Air, the five-year-old five-star airline that has change into concerning the fastest-growing airline in Nigeria was about giving beginning to a different airliner.
Gathered to obtain the model new A-220-300 Airbus being added to the Ibom Air fleet had been a number of residents together with the primary citizen of the state, Governor Umo Eno and a former governor of the state, Sir Victor Attah, after whom the airport has been named.
Aside from the veneration bestowed on him for laying the foundations of the trendy Akwa Ibom, Attah is usually acknowledged for laying the inspiration for the state to change into an aviation hub. His successors have progressively constructed on it with the rapid previous governor, Mr Udom Emmanuel crystallising the beginning of the one government-owned airline within the nation.
Governor Eno, being a pastor was fast to set the spiraling fortune of the airline on a scriptural footing drawing from Paul’s first letter to the Church in Corinth “I’ve planted, Apollos watered; however God gave the rise.”
Whereas all three former governors of Akwa Ibom within the Fourth Republic had a task to play within the pleasure of the day, it was no shock that he singled out his rapid predecessor, Mr Emmanuel for his distinctive imaginative and prescient in laying the foundations for Ibom Air.
“Let me significantly have a good time and thank my worthy predecessor for his imaginative and prescient in conceptualizing and respiratory life into this satisfaction of Akwa Ibom and satisfaction of Nigeria within the aviation trade, Ibom Air. When this concept was first introduced, the same old naysayers had dismissed it as a flash of wishful pondering. However as he all the time would say: The reply to doubters is success that shocks and confounds. As we speak, Ibom Air is the main model within the Nigerian aviation trade, a mere 4 years plus after it began industrial operations.”
. reviews that Emmanuel’s business-minded method in nurturing the airline has discovered continuity in Eno who translated from the non-public sector having been beautified as probably the most profitable hospitality entrepreneurs within the state.
For an airline which has gained recognition for its on-time boarding and security information, the longer term beneath the current governor seems vibrant with plans to strengthen worldwide operations into East, Central and South African areas.
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