Governor Otti’s attack on Anglican Church improper, unwarranted – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has criticized Governor Alex Otti of Abia State for his attacks on the leadership of the Anglican Church, Aba Diocese.

In a statement released on Monday, Abia PDP Vice Chairman and Acting State Chairman Hon. Abraham Amah voiced his dissatisfaction with the Otti administration’s handling of the Anglican Church of Aba Diocese’s recommendations, as outlined in a communique issued following the church’s 17th Synod.

The Church had urged the State government to stop firing governmental servants and instead invest in repairing the economic highways in Aba.

He claimed that rather than take the counsel in good faith and make amends, Otti brought a politically irreconcilable element into the whole issue in his typical flagrant display of intolerance.

The PDP claims that the Governor made an exception for the signatory’s daughter during the mass firing of Abia civil servants that he initiated as soon as he took office.

Amah elaborated by saying that Otti had also claimed that the same signatory had asked him to back a factional leader for NULGE’s chairmanship against the wishes of the majority of the union’s executive members and to back the imposition of a particular traditional ruler as the council’s chairman.

His words were: “In all the strangeness of the response, what is most insulting to the members of the 17th Synod of the Anglican Church of Aba Diocese, the entire congregation of the Anglican Communion, and in fact to Christendom is for Alex Otti to say that out of the lot of Bishops that attended the Synod and signed the communique only one man, standing behind his personal interest, dictated the letters of the communique and persuaded others to sign a

“Without the aid of magicians, is it difficult for anyone to know that over 10,000 civil servants have been sacked in Abia State or that the major roads that deserve attention to spur economic activities in Aba, notably, Port Harcourt, Ohanku, Obohia and other roads in Aba and its environs have not been given attention?”

The PDP has stated it is ironic that Otti is the one criticizing the previous administration of not adhering to established protocols when it comes to conducting government business, given that he is just as guilty, if not more so.

The main opposition party argued that Otti had not followed proper procedures in a number of his actions as governor of Abia State since taking office.