“Very reassuring that our citizens are behind us, but they want reforms and they want them very quickly.”
The governor made the appeal during his 2023 Democracy Day message on Monday in Calabar.
The outgoing governor, however, expressed confidence in the personality and capacity of the incoming governor, Bassey Otu, to perform.
“Payment of gratuities to state retirees from April 2014 and local government workers from 2012 is still pending.”
The All Progressives Congress will dominate the next Cross River House of Assembly, having won 19 out of 25 seats in the March 18 election.
The adoption followed the nullification of the candidacy of Regina Anyogo, hitherto the candidate of the APC.
He said the agency, when and if established, would partner with the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs.
Mr Owan-Enoh said his decision was based on the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu’s public appeal to him.
Bassey Otu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Cross River, has suspended all his political activities.
The former minister had in May defected to the PRP, after failing to clinch the APC’s ticket.
