Ikpeazu has turned Abia commissioners into beggars – Rep Onyejeocha * Says any gov who can’t pay workers has no business being in power * Mocks gov’s alleged plot to anoint successor

Ikpeazu has turned Abia commissioners into beggars – Rep Onyejeocha

* Says any gov who can’t pay workers has no business being in power

* Mocks gov’s alleged plot to anoint successor

By Steve Oko

Deputy Chief Whip and member representing Isuikwuato/Umunneochi federal consituency at the House of Representatives, Hon Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, has accused Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of starving his Commissioners and turning them into beggars.

The four- time federal lawmaker who dropped the bombshell weekend, when the former Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, hosted stakeholders of the All Progressive Congress, APC, in his Ovim Isuikwuato country home, said that members of the State Executive Council, had never had it so bad.

She regretted that some Commissioners in the state personally ask her for financial assistance, complaining that they are being starved of funds.

Rep. Onyejeocha who was a former Commissioner in the state challenged Ikpeazu to prover her wrong.

She said that the present crop of Commissioners in the state “are suffering and smiling”, claiming that some of them don’t even control budgets meant for their Ministries.

Gov. Ikpeazu inaugurated the current State Exco in October 2021 after about 10 months the previous Exco was dissolved.

The former House Committee Chairman on Aviation who said that any governor who could not pay workers’ salaries had no business being in power, asked Ikpeazu to sit up or step aside.

“We’re talking of non-payment of salaries. If you can’t do that, then you don’t have any business being in government,” she fumed.

Onyejeocha regretted that Abia State was unfortunately “saddled with a governor who is found wanting in both physical and stomach infrastructure.”

According to her, no government since the creation of Abia has starved Commissioners and made them appear so beggarly as the current administration.

“I’ve not seen any government that doesn’t pay Commissioners and empower them with imprest to be able to offer even little assistance to people in need since they can’t offer employment”.

Rep Onyejeocha mocked Ikpeazu for allegedly plotting to anoint a successor, saying that such a development, if allowed will amount to perpetuating the anomaly of god-fatherism in the state.

She urged Abians to vote out the ruling party in 2023, accusing it of underperformance and impoverishing the state.

“Is that a government you want to vote in for continuity and when they appoint commissioners they will be begging for money?”

Onyejeocha accused some APC members of being PDP mole in the party and aiding the emergence of the PDP in 2019, but vowed that such blacklegs would soon be flushed out of the party.

Onyejeocha hailed Chief Ikechi Emenike for his sacrifices in rebuilding APC in the state.

Meanwhile, efforts to extract reaction from Gov. Ikpeazu were unsuccessful as his Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Dr. Eze Chikamnayo, did not pick calls put across to him even though they all rang out.

He also had yet to respond to text message sent to his phone as at the time of filing this report.

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