Stakeholders in Ohafia local government area of Abia State have declared that they were not expecting business as usual from his “incoming administration” in 2023, thereby setting an agenda for the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in the state, Chief Ikechi Emenike.
Among others, the stakeholders said the must rescue the state from bad governance as soon as he assumed office.
They made the demands at a meeting hosted by Chief Stanley Orji Oba at Abiriba, specifically asking Emenike to forge ahead with his mission to free Abia from misrule.
“We don’t have a good manager in Government House,” one of the stakeholders said. Adding that the incompetence of the people presiding over the affairs of Abia is so glaring that their behaviour remains unchanged under every economic situation
“I recommend High Chief Emenike as someone who will be diligent in managing our resources and we must support him to drive away the bad managers out of Government House,” he said.
Also, House of Assembly aspirant for Ohafia South, Hon. Otuwe Kalu Orji at the meeting noted that “Abia has suffered a lot” but added that there is hope for a better tomorrow because “the man who will change the bad situation has come.”
“We are here to tell Abiriba, Nkporo and Ohafia (the communities that constitute Ohafia LG) that APC has come with the right leader to take over Abia State,” he said.
Emenike, in his remarks, told the Ohafia stakeholders that he had committed himself to lift Abia out of the pit of underdevelopment which bad governance has plunged it.
“There will be a better Abia at the 32nd anniversary of its creation,” he said.
The APC governorship standard-bearer regretted that “after 31 years of existence Abia is still in a state of decay. It is a shame. But I promise that after two years whoever likes dirty environments will not see it again in Abia.”
