…Says Abia governor will be defeated in 2027
A prominent group loyal to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia State, Abia Best Interest Association (A.B.I.A) has challenged 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, to prevail on the state governor, Alex Otti to show accountability on some of his projects.
The APC group specifically challenged the state Labour Party government to publish the list, location, contractors and pictures of the purported 51 public school projects for which over 54 Billion Naira has been allegedly spent between the first and fourth quarter of 2024.
Addressing a press conference on Monday in Abuja, the group led by Hon. Eze Chikamnayo, Esq, said Peter Obi do not have temerity to criticize any government if the only state being governed by his party is also indicative of systemic corruption, impunity, lack of transparency and accountability in Governance.
According to him, Peter Obi should stop talking about Indonesia, China and others, but talk about the Labour Party government in Abia state. Peter Obi should stop being a hypocrite, talk about Abia Local Government grounded and stagnant because their monies have been hijacked by the Labour Party government in Abia state.
He said: “If we talk about accountability at the federal level and we refuse to talk about if at the state and local government levels, we make ourselves hypocrites and it undermines the essence of good governance in Nigeria.
“We have a message for Mr. Peter Obi. He is galvanizing to Indonesia, going to India, even going to Egypt to look for model on how he thinks Nigeria should be governed. I say to Mr. Peter Obi to stop the hypocrisy. You don’t need to go to Indonesia or anywhere in the world. Mr. Peter Obi should go to Abia state. This us the only Labour Party (LP) state in Nigeria.
“He should go there and ask Mr. Alex Otti how the N54 billion meant for education has been taken for Smart schools and no single school is to be found.”
The APC group while thanking President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for ignoring Alex Otti’s invitation to commission some projects last week, added that the Governor will be roundly defeated by competent and capable loyal members of APC in the 2027 election.
He said: “We will not welcome Mr. Alex Otti with his excess baggage, and with his corruption, and with his lack of transparency and with his lack of accountability to APC at the state.
“Anybody who is thinking that he is going to cooperate with Mr. Alex Otti to continue his era of complete intimidation, his era of complete impunity, his era of complete anarchy in Abia State by joining APC through the backdoor, such a person is day-dreaming. Abia State APC has in its kitty competent men who are capable of joining hands with President Bula Ahmed Tinubu to make sure that APC and the Renewed Hope Agenda is made available to the people of Abia State, both at the state and the local government level.
“So, therefore, we will replace Mr. Alex Otti come 2027 with APC government that will make sure that the Renewed Hope Agenda is spread to the grassroots in Abia State.”
When asked whether APC could defeat Governor Otti in 2027, Barrister Chikamnayo: “People who are saying that Alex Otti is not beatable are building castles in the air, Mr Alex Otti knows within his heart that he is completely using the machinery of media propaganda and manipulation to build an image that doesn’t exist.
“The reality in Abia state today is that civil servants are being repressed, the reality on ground in Abia state today is that there are phantom projects, that used to siphon billions of Abia money without accountability and transparency.
“The reality in Abia state today is that Abians are yearning for liberation and that liberation must come to pass in 2027.
Alex Otti will be roundly defeated in 2027 because Abia people are tired of his rule that has become a rule of tyranny and a complete rule of confusion.”
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