The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has assessed that 30 years would not be enough to clean up the ‘mess’ that Theodore Orji’s ‘political Dynasty’ left in Abia State, which Governor Okezie lkpeazu inherited in 2015.
The group said it is pertinent to put the facts straight regarding the ongoing public spat between the outgoing Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, and his predecessor, Senator Theodore Orji, over unpaid salaries of workers.
Theodore Orji
Lsiguzoro, while conceding the fact that payment of workers’ salaries as and when due, next to security, is the basic duty of any government, Senator Orji should be the last person to tackle Ikpeazu based on his own abysmal record.
“Rather than become a distraction to the incoming Labour Party (LP) Government in Abia State under Dr Alex Chioma Otti, through his unwarranted verbal attacks on Governor Ikpeazu, Ochendo, who has been retired from politics, alongside his son, the former Speaker, Abia State House of Assembly, Hon Chinedu Orji, by the Obidient movement’s Tsunami, should be contritely seeking the forgiveness of God and the people of Abia State, whose destiny he has actively mortgaged in the past 24 years of his being in power in the State.
“In fact, 30 years will not be enough to clean the mess the Ochendo political Dynasty put Abia State in. At Ikpeazu’s inception in office on 29th May, 2015, Abia State was virtually a ” failed state” in terms of Infrastructural decay, insecurity and near absence of investments and economic development.
Ohanaeze recall that it was under Theodore Orji that the Anambra State-born business magnate, Prince Arthur Eze, made an embarrassing statement that, “Abia State stinks”.
“Unfortunately, Ochendo as governor, lacked the guts to either reply Arthur Eze or stop the stench that Abia State then was.
“Yet, by installing his son as Speaker, as well as several other subterranean moves including planting of moles, (Theodore) Orji held the State to ransom thereby sabotaging Governor Ikpeazu’s genuine efforts at uplifting good governance in the State.
“As such, people who don’t have the right information find it hard to appreciate the modest achievements of Governor Ikpeazu because the rot left behind by Ochendo was of immense proportion.
The group urged Ikpeazu to be focused to the end, and allow posterity to judge all, as he is regarded as the best amongst the three Abia elected.
(Source: independent)
