Ikpeazu Wasting Abia Resources On 2nd Term Bid – APGA

The All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in Abia State has blasted Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, accusing him of abandoning governance and spending billions of Abia taxpayers’ money on his 2019 re-election bid.

The Abia State Chairman of APGA, Rev. Augustine Ehiemere, said this in a press statement while decrying the death of an Abia polytechnic lecturer, Dr. Achi Uche.

Ehiemere said that Ikpeazu was now in the habit of seeking cheap popularity and wasting Abia resources on his second term endorsements and awards while civil servants in Abia are dying and many living in penury.

“Rather than sit down and articulate the challenges of his office to enable him render quality leadership to Abians, Ikpeazu is concentrating his time and energy, as well as wasting Abia resources seeking 2019 re-election endorsements and awards from all directions in his desperate bid to boost his popularity and acceptability, even in the midst of those who do not care about Abia state,” Ehiemere said.

APGA said the Okezie Ikpeazu led Abia state government should be held responsible for the untimely death of the polytechnic lecturer because he “was not paid his accumulated salary arrears to enable him obtain adequate treatment in the hospital, and that this was worsened by alleged quit notice issued to him by his landlord for his inability to pay his house rent.”

Ehiemere further urged the governor to urgently resolve the ongoing strike by lecturers of the Abia State Polytechnic in other to avoid further deaths.

“Ikpeazu should without further delay ensure the resolution of the industrial dispute which has crippled academic activities in Abia Polytechnic by making sure that the striking lecturers are paid their accumulated salary arrears which they worked for. This should be urgently done to avoid further deaths in the school,” Ehiemere said.