Abia State governorship candidate on the platform of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Dr. Alex Otti, has bemoaned the near absence of motorable roads and other basic infrastructure in most communities in the state, promising to tackle the problem headlong if elected governor in February 28.
Otti, who expressed the displeasure last Tuesday during a campaign tour of Ukwa East and West Local Government Areas of the state, said it was an act of wickedness for a government to watch the people of the communities go through such suffering due to lack of basic infrastructures.
The APGA governorship candidate was particularly sympathetic with the situation in the Ukwa East and West, saying despite the fact that the local governments were oil-producing areas, they practically looked abandoned by government.
“The issue of neglect of your area will be over if you vote for me and APGA during the elections. They always tell you Ukwa is a major part of Abia South but when it comes to political representation and development, they ignore you. But we will never do that and that is why we have chosen one of your own in the person of Chris Nkwonta as a senatorial candidate to give you a sense of belonging in Abia politics.
“Irrespective of the fact that this area is the only reason why Abia is called an oil producing state today, basic infrastructures like good roads, good hospitals are almost non-existence here. They have abandoned you totally, leaving you only at the mercy of NDDC projects whereas our state gets 13 percent derivation fund from the Federal Government like other oil producing states,” Otti said.
Promising that his government would change all that, he urged the people to vote for him and other candidates of the party during the elections.
