APGA, PDP Fight Dirty In Abia As Govt Fingers Otti Over Collapse Of N6.8b Faulks Road Aba

The disagreement between the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led Abia State administration and the opposition All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has heightened with more verbal war.

In a press statement issued by the chairman, the Rev. Augustine Ehiemere yesterday, APGA said the administration ignored the issues it had raised earlier and went personal.

At a world press conference addressed by the chairman in Umuahia, the state capital, the opposition party had alleged that the state under the PDP had been unlucky in terms of good leadership and governance since 1999.

Citing many areas where he complained that the successive administrations had failed, Ehiemere added that in comparison, the state was lagging far behind Imo, Anambra, Enugu, and Ebonyi, “just to mention but a few.”

He said, “Unarguably, we cannot beat our chest and say the state has achieved any meaningful development, economically and otherwise for the past 22 years now, using some developmental indices and yardstick as compared to the states mentioned.”

Meanwhile, reacting to the allegations, the state commissioner for information and strategy, Barr Eze Chikamnayo at press conference at the Government House, made several allegations against Dr Alex Otti, APGA’s 2015 and 2019 governorship candidate.

In an address entitled “Enough of Otti’s nonsense” Chikamnayo also accused the former banker of being instrumental to the collapse of the N6.8b 4.7 km Faulks Road, Aba, built by the present administration.