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Gov Otti
The All Progressives Congress (APC) stakeholders have ruled out the possibilities of the governor of Abia State, Alex Otti, joining the party from the Labour Party (LP) ahead of the 2027 general elections.
The APC stakeholders hinged their rejection of the Abia governor on what they described as a liability, claiming that nobody in APC Abia state is ready to identify with him let alone welcoming him into the party.
Eze Chikamnayo, the convener, who dismissed the chances at a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday noted: “He wants people to believe that he supports President Bola Tinubu, but we know that in Abia state he is undermining Mr President.
“As we speak, over N300 billion has come from President Tinubu reforms into Abia state government and all the local governments are grounded, castrated and completely insolvent.
“We don’t want him to join APC and we are not ready to receive such a liability into our party. That is what we are saying. Nobody in APC Abia state wants anything called Alex Otti. He is a liability,” he fumed.
The stakeholders equally accused the Abia government of lack of transparency and accountability, stressing: “The Abia Best Interest Association and indeed the APC Abia State, therefore, wishes to draw attention of the pubic to the fact that allocations and various intervention funds coming to Abia State from the Federal Government, have tripled since the inception of the President Tinubu-led administration.
“We are wondering why there was still nothing tangible to show in the education sector in Abia State compared to the situation in Imo and Enugu States, where the government has rebuilt, modernized, and equipped public schools with visible results for all to see,” he said.
While commenting further, the stakeholders further claimed: “We went further to question the much-publicized N54 billion which appeared in the Abia State Budget Performance Report for the renovation and retrofitting of public schools for the year 2024 and stress that a Budget Performance Report, anywhere in the world, details accomplished projects and the actual amounts spent – not mere approved figures,” the stakeholders claimed. (Daily Sun)
