Governor Alex Chioma Otti, has called on Abia citizens of goodwill with lofty visionary ideas to come forward and join hands with his administration to raise the bar of governance in Abia State.
Otti particularly extended his hand of fellowership and comradeship to Abia sisters and brothers in opposition parties, who contested the march 18 2023 gubernatorial election conducted by the independent National Electoral Commission.
He stated during a parley with the mammoth crowd of Abia people and residents held recently in umuahia, the state capital.
AFRIPOST recalls Otti was on 29th May, 2023, swore in as the newly elected Governor of Abia state after the declaration as winner of the keenly-contested and concluded 2023 gubernatorial election conducted in the state by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The former bank chief and state labour party governorship candidate, polled a total number of polling a total of 175, 467 votes cast to beat his closest rival and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Okey Ahiwe, who scored 88,529 votes to come second place at the concluded March 18, 2023 state elections held in the country by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Otti also reiterated that his primary motive behind his aspiration to contest the Abia governorship seat was to engender effective democratic leadership and enhance the welfare of people of the state.
According to him,”the truth is that we are all winners and there is no loser. The primary motive behind our aspirations to contest at one level or the other, even though we might have boarded different political vehicles, was to raise the bar of governance and improve the living standard of our people.
“These aspirations, more than anything else, were equally my driving force to aspire three times to govern Abia. I, therefore, make bold to say that those are the ideals that we shall pursue diligently and without bitterness and rancour,” he added.
The State Governor enjoined Abia citizens of goodwill to come on board as he seeks a common purpose to actualize long–held positive desires for the people.
“We must now, more than ever before, come together to pull Abia state out of her current sorry state and quagmire.
“I must also state that our state has never been this divided along ethnic lines.”
The Abia Chief Executive further used the fora to call on the political elites who had been fanning these fault lines to desist forthwith and give peace a chance.
“Afterall, we are one and the same people,”Otti submitted.”