Governor of Akwa Ibom
Victor Attah was elected governor of Akwa Ibom in 1999 on the PDP platform, and was reelected 2003. He was elected Chairman of the Forum of the 36 Governors of Nigeria in 2003.
In 2001, Victor Attah travelled to the United States with as many as 21 people in search of foreign investors. Apparently this visit and others produced no tangible results. He promised to improve telecoms, electrical power supply, and air transport infrastructure, and to replicate Silicon Valley in Uyo. He planned to build an airport in Uyo before he left office in 2007. He laid the foundation for the establishment of the Akwa Ibom State University of Technology. According to the Daily Sun, little was in fact achieved. The Victor Attah Digital Opportunity Centre (VADOC) was said to be no more a typical cybercafé with VSAT connection and some computer points.
Obong Attah ran for the 2007 presidential nomination of the Peoples Democratic Party in 2007, but later withdrew.
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