Maduako Igbokwe I Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023
UMUAHIA, Abia, Nigeria – President of Abia State Indigenes Forum Comrade Damian Ogudike has appealed to the governor of Abia state Dr. Alex Otti to rebrand the state for greater development.
He challenged Alex Otti to review the aesthetics of Umuahia by giving it a facelift that was befitting of a state capital status.
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According to him, Umuahia has remained a glorified village 32 years after creation.
Comrade Ogudike who spoke to journalists shortly after being conferred with an award of excellence service to humanity in Onitsha on Sunday by the Abia Ministers Forum, Anambra state (AMFA) said that governor Otti was doing well, but needed to prioritise on developing Umuahia by giving it the capital city status.
He advised the governor to carry all the stakeholders along as nobody can run government alone , noting that governance is a tedious task.
“I will advise the governor to bring everybody in the state together. He needs to be collective in the approach towards developing the state for the good of the people. He is doing well in Aba,before now Aba was a dirty place but today he has cleaned up Aba.
“ He is marvellously doing well in Aba. He has constructed many roads within some months in Aba. Though, he is doing well in Aba,may be he needed to generate more revenues to run the government. He should not only concentrate on Aba alone. He needs to really develop Umuahia and make the capital city, a capital city,not just a glorified local government headquarters. Regrettably, Abia state is still operating from rented building, which ought not to be. He has to make serious efforts to build the Abia state owned government House. Let him not behave like the past governments in the state who operated in the state without vision for 24 years. He has to prioritise on giving Abia State a befitting state House” he said.
According to him,they are happy with the works the governor is doing in Abia State and promised that they will work with the governor to build a better Abia State.
He said that because of their determination to have a better Abia state,they were involved into politics and prayers.
“We have been working since 2019 to position Abia State as one of the best states in the country, through prayers and involvement in politicking and by the special grace of God all our efforts are bearing fruits. We are happy now that we have a change of government in Abia State.Even though, the governor is not doing what we want. We have reached out to him to have a chat with Abia ministers and we know we have our ideas on how to move Abia forward” he said.
On the issue of bringing Abians together in Anambra State, he stated that they have been meeting and mobilising Ndi Abia for political consciousness but the security situation was a serious challenge.
“We had been meeting regularly every three months until we had COVID- 19. With the insecurity in the zone, we decided to be having our meeting online. The security situation has not allowed us to advance our course, to reach out to our people in the state. Before now, we have been reaching to most Abia state town unions in Anambra state until the challenges came up.
The chairman of Abia Ministers Forum Anambra Atate Bishop Innocent Chidi had been reaching out to various town unions and he was also bringing us together until the unfortunate development” he said .
