APGA: Gov. Ikpeazu A Disappointment In First 100 Days Of 2nd Tenure

The All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Abia State, has criticized Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu on the first 100 days of his second tenure, prosecuting his government for retrogression and obvious failures of its first tenure that include projects abandonment, non-payment of workers salaries and accumulated pension arrears.

APGA , Abia State in a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Ebere Uzoukwa, and made available to newsmen in Umuahia, the Abia state capital, Friday afternoon, took the governor to the cleaners as it chronicled some of his failures to include “the abandoned Osisioma Fly-Over, a conduit pipe with which the governor and his surrogates have so far used to siphon about 5 Billion Naira from the treasury of Abia State, the destruction rather than construction of Obikabia-Umuobiakwa-Ururuka Road (the road leading to the governor’s house/village), the invisible Enyimba Economic City, the non-existent Abia Shoe Factory and the destroyed but abandoned Abiriba-Nkporo road.

Also enlisted were, 8-Month Salary Arrears owe to Secondary School Teachers, the16-Month Salary Arrears owe to Abia Workers, the 30-Month Arrears owe to Abia Pensioners, Contracts Inflation, Money Laundering and the neglect of the Ukwa East and Ukwa West LGAs as well as the oil-producing communities of Abia State.

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Abia being referred to as the least developed state in the country, APGA further described the situation as disheartening especially when governors of some neighboring states in the South-East, particularly Ebonyi and Enugu state are consolidating gainfully numerous achievements recorded during their first term in office.

“It is disheartening that while states in South-East like Ebonyi, Enugu and their governors consolidate on their laudable achievements and progress made during their first tenure on the occasion of first 100 days of their second tenure, Abians are languishing in darkness and backwardness under the visionless PDP government led by Okezie Ikpeazu. There is no gainsaying that Abia is rated the worst state in terms of good governance and the least developed state in Nigeria”.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner for Information in Abia state, Chief John Okiyi Kalu, had recently condemned Otti over his continued launch of media destructive attack against Ikpeazu-led government, which he (Kalu) claimed was aimed at deceiving naive Abia people as well as portraying the governor as an ineffective leader.
According to the  media, in recent interviews, the Commissioner for Information has insisted that the present administration has improved good living of civil servants, added that majority of the State workers were better remunerated than their counterparts in other states in the South-East zone.