The Abia State Government has warned opposition politicians, particularly senior figures in the All Progressives Congress, to stop attempting to manufacture a rift between Governor Alex Otti and President Bola Tinubu for political gain. The warning came on Sunday from the governor’s Special Adviser on Policies and Interventions, Rev. Fr. Christian Anokwuru, amid reports that three former governors, now in the APC, were allegedly plotting to unseat Otti and dislodge the Labour Party from power in the state ahead of the 2027 elections.Anokwuru said the growing reliance on President Tinubu’s name by opposition figures to attack the Otti administration amounted to “forced enmity” and deliberate misrepresentation. “When former governors and past political office holders, whose records are still fresh in the collective memory of Abians, congregate to challenge the leadership of Dr Alex Otti, the public is entitled to interrogate not just their claims, but also their credibility,” he said.He criticised the opposition’s strategy of anchoring its attacks on the federal government’s “Renewed Hope” agenda rather than on verifiable facts or alternative policy ideas. “Everything about your supposed criticism against Dr Alex Otti’s administration is resting on ‘Renewed Hope’. It is expected that an opposition made up of former governors should build arguments based on their own achievements, not by name-dropping President Bola Tinubu,” Anokwuru stated.He urged opposition figures to abandon what he described as politics of vendetta and personal bitterness, stressing that attempts to pit Otti against Tinubu would fail.Stop forcing enmity between Alex Otti and President Bola Tinubu; it cannot work because their friendship is beyond politics,” he said. Anokwuru noted that while opposition remains vital in a democracy, it loses moral authority when driven by selfish ambition rather than constructive, policy-based criticism.More concerning is the heavy reliance on the perceived might of President Bola Tinubu as the backbone of the opposition. Federal proximity cannot substitute for local legitimacy, nor can it erase the lived experiences of the people under previous administrations,” he added. He further dismissed claims that the opposition enjoyed the backing of the President, insisting that Tinubu had shown consistent goodwill towards the Abia governor.The irony is that President Bola Tinubu has not shown support for whatever propaganda these relevance seekers are pushing. The president knows that Dr Alex Otti is one of the best-performing governors in Nigeria and has continually shown support for his administration,” Anokwuru said. Warning that invoking Tinubu’s name would not rescue the opposition from public judgment, he concluded: “Tinubu is not backing you; you are backing yourself with Tinubu. This approach does not strengthen democracy; it weakens public trust.”
Grown men should not still be on feeding bottle. I write and express my opinion with no fear of favour. Integrity lack in men who have been blessed to the level of being governors of a state for 8 years, men who have made and stollen enough money to last them and their respective families for a life time but do not have integrity enough to stay identified by the the party that made them.
How respectful is it that these 2 ex PDP governors , men who should be leaders in the state , captain of industries are busy jumping from one party to another without shame. Most of them cannot point at a pure water factory built by them sincerely to employ and protect members of the state.
Just because their undeserved lifetime pension is revoked by a Governor that means well for the state have decided to gang up to remove the Governor just to keep looting and re-instate their lifetime pension that is a benefit solely reserved for civil servants that have served the state for 30 years of service. 8 years of being a governor do not warrant a politician to get lifetime pension robbing the civil servants of their well deserved pension and gratuity.
Please these ex-Governors should be advices to use the money the have stilled to help and develop the state and not to plan to take power and now share the loot 3 ways. We now look at them from the rear view mirror. Enough is enough.
Alex Oti is not a Saint but he is a man of integrity that means well for the state and the common man. With the state of the arts infrastructure he attracts to the state, Abia transport bus, school upgrade, Abia University and dormitory renovation upgrade, upcoming Abia airport and many more that the past governors had opportunity to do but never did.
Now they want to jointly impose one stooge like Nyesom Wike to do their bidding. Please any reasonable man or woman should work to resist these evil men.
There is no vacancy in Abia State 2027.
I write with no fear of favor but state thing as we see them.
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Grown men should not still be on feeding bottle. I write and express my opinion with no fear of favour. Integrity lack in men who have been blessed to the level of being governors of a state for 8 years, men who have made and stollen enough money to last them and their respective families for a life time but do not have integrity enough to stay identified by the the party that made them.
ReplyDeleteHow respectful is it that these 2 ex PDP governors , men who should be leaders in the state , captain of industries are busy jumping from one party to another without shame. Most of them cannot point at a pure water factory built by them sincerely to employ and protect members of the state.
Just because their undeserved lifetime pension is revoked by a Governor that means well for the state have decided to gang up to remove the Governor just to keep looting and re-instate their lifetime pension that is a benefit solely reserved for civil servants that have served the state for 30 years of service. 8 years of being a governor do not warrant a politician to get lifetime pension robbing the civil servants of their well deserved pension and gratuity.
Please these ex-Governors should be advices to use the money the have stilled to help and develop the state and not to plan to take power and now share the loot 3 ways. We now look at them from the rear view mirror. Enough is enough.
Alex Oti is not a Saint but he is a man of integrity that means well for the state and the common man. With the state of the arts infrastructure he attracts to the state, Abia transport bus, school upgrade, Abia University and dormitory renovation upgrade, upcoming Abia airport and many more that the past governors had opportunity to do but never did.
Now they want to jointly impose one stooge like Nyesom Wike to do their bidding. Please any reasonable man or woman should work to resist these evil men.
There is no vacancy in Abia State 2027.
I write with no fear of favor but state thing as we see them.
Royal High Chief Henry Ubi, Onwa Ukwu OHUHU.