Abians want Otti as next gov – Ubani

Abia State indigenes at home and abroad are rooting for the
emergence of the former Managing Director of Diamond Bank,
Dr. Alex Otti, who is the governorship candidate of the All
Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) for the February 28,
elections.
He is up against the candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic
Party (PDP), Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, who is being propped up by
the incumbent governor, Chief Theodore Orji.
As the election draws nearer, Abians insist on change, arguing
that the outgoing PDP administration in the state did not meet
their expectations of governance.
One of those clamouring for Otti as the next governor is an
Aba-based businessman, Chief Kenneth Ubani.
Ubani, a textile materials merchant, lamented that Aba,
hitherto the commercial nerve centre of Abia State, has
literally been in comatose in the last seven years.
“Today in Aba metropolis, it is near impossible to connect the
various business districts by road, because the roads are not
motorable anyway. The situation is a reflection of bad
governance.
“Therefore, we the residents of Aba are fed up with the
situation, and that’s why we want a change. We the business
men in Aba have resolved to vote Otti for a change, because
we know that any vote for PDP in the next election is a vote
for the old order, which we are determined to do away with,”
he said.
An importer and an indigene of Ubakala, Umuahia, Mr.
Celestine Odimba, said his people have resolved to enthrone
change by voting a technocrat as the next governor of the
state. Like others, Odimba believes that Otti is Abia’s best bet
at the moment, insisting that anything to the contrary is a
return to the old order.
In the same vein, New Jersey, USA-based scholar, Mr. George
Chukwuemeka, advised Abians who have the opportunity of
participating in the next election to vote a candidate with no
association whatsoever with the outgoing government.
“I do not live in Nigeria, but I have asked questions from our
people back home. From the things I hear, I have the
conviction that Dr. Alex Otti, the man that left his plum bank
job to vie for the governorship is our best bet as governor at
this time. We need someone who will rescue Abia from the
shackles of bad governance.