Abia State governor, Alex Otti, has said he cannot be cowed by the deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu’s threat that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will take over the state in 2027.
This was just as he stressed that he had no plans to defect from the Labour Party to the ruling party as some of his colleagues had recently done.
Otti stated these at his monthly media briefing tagged, “Governor Otti speaks to Abians” for the month of October in Umuahia, the state capital, saying he is not intimidated by the threat.
He explained that he believes that the outcome of the election would be determined only by the will of God and the masses and warned those contemplating writing the result to first write their will.
”I’ve heard that some people around him say oh, they must take over this state, they must write results but the only advice I have for them is that if they truly want to write results, they should write something else before that time. You know what it is? Their will,” he said.
The governor, who maintained that the member representing Bende federal constituency has the right to aspire for the governorship seat, described the deputy speaker as his friend and younger brother and had forgiven him for the utterance, which was the second time and urged him to put the peace of the state first.
Kalu made the comment about two weeks ago while addressing his supporters in the capital, after President Bola Tinubu’s visit to the state to commission some projects executed by Otti.
The second term legislator had in the first utterance, which Otti at a similar occasion dismissed with a wave of the hand, emphatically said Otti would be the last Labour Party governor of the state.
