Presidency Extols Otti’s Giant Strides as Renewed Hope Media Team Tours Abia

The Presidency has extolled the transformational projects of the Abia state Governor, Dr. Alex Otti describing the projects executed within three years in office as very impressive.

Speaking to the press in an interview after the tour of various federal and state owned executed projects in Abia by the Renewed Hope Media Team, on Wednesday, June 17th, at Umuahia, the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Public Communication, Mr Sunday Dare said that, it was impressive that Abia state was witnessing great transformation under Governor Alex Otti.

“It is really impressive to see that a state like Abia is experiencing this kind of transformation. From road construction, transportation, of course, housing and other facilities under the span of three years under Dr. Alex Otti.

“Even the electrification project that we saw, 33 kilometres on the Ohafia stretch, the governor is touching on the critical infrastructure necessary for a state like Abia.

“We know that in the past years, Abia has not recognised the kind of advancement needed in terms of infrastructure. Now you have a governor who is touching on the basis, who is working with stakeholders, who is though in his Labour Party, who is also working with the federal government,” Dare stated.

Mr. Dare, who appreciated the synergy between Abia state Governor and the federal government, noted that, political party differences make no meaning when it comes to governance, and added that what is rather important is collaboration and noted that the partnership between the Abia state government and the federal government is very impressive and productive.

“So when it comes to governance, it’s about collaboration. When it comes to development of your people, it doesn’t essentially have to wear party colours. Because when you play too much party politics, development suffers and your people suffer.

“That’s what we’ve seen. The collaboration between the state and the federal government is impressive. In terms of rate, I said it’s impressive.

“It covers various sectors, human capital development, solid infrastructure. So it’s impressive.

“We see the airport project going on between the federal government and the state government,” Dare stated.

Conducting the team round the various project sites, the Commissioner for Information , Prince Okey Kanu and the Commissioner for Works , Engr. Otumchere Oti, said that the 67-kilometres Umuahia-Uzuakoli-Akara-Alayi- Abiriba – Ohafia which was hitherto impassable, was entirely funded and constructed by the state government and has significantly improved connectivity across more LGAs in Abia Central and Abia North senatorial zone.

The Commissioners said that the road links numerous agrarian communities to the state capital and and is installed with streetlights just as other roads the administration is doing.

Speaking also, the Commissioner for Power and Public Utilities, Engr. Ikechukwu Monday, informed that the state government was on the verge of restoring electricity to Ohafia communities that had been without power for eight years due to activities of vandals.

He disclosed that the state government had completed a 20-kilometre, 33KV power line from Ihechiowa in Arochukwu to Ebem, Ohafia, terminating at a newly installed 7.5MVA injection substation, adding that the Ministry is currently finishing the last-mile installations to restore power supply to the whole of Ohafia Local Government Area.

The Commissioner also revealed that the state government is almost finalising a transaction to acquire a majority stake in the Abia operations of the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC), which he said would enable the government extend stable electricity to the remaining 8 local government areas not covered by Geometric Power, Aba.

For the housing estates, the Commissioner for Lands, Mr Chaka Chukwumerije, noted that the Renewed Hope Housing Estate in Umuahia was recently flagged-off and described it as one of the key federal interventions aimed at addressing housing needs in the state.

Contributing, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Publicity, Mr Ferdinand Ekeoma, disclosed how bad the roads fixed were, particularly, that of the Umuahia -Uzuakoli -Akara -Abiriba-Ohafia road adding that it has been in bad shape for almost two decades before the intervention of Governor Alex Otti.

Some of the projects inspected were the 3 sections 67-kilometres Umuahia-Uzuakoli-Akara-Alayi- Abiriba – Ohafia Road, the four-lane Tower -Onuimo now renamed Dr Uma Ukpai Road project, the newly constructed iconic Omenuko Bridge, all being federal government projects executed by the Otti led administration.

Others are the state owned 30-kilometres Ozuabam-Ndiokereke-Amuvi Arochukwu Road, the newly flagged off Renewed Hope Housing Estate in Umuahia, the Renewed Hope Housing Estate at Onu-Inyang – Bende and recently commissioned Nnenna Oti Bus Terminal Umuahia among others.

The Special Adviser to the Governor Monitoring and Evaluation, Mazi Ugochukwu Okoroafor, Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Public Affairs, Dr. Ebere Uzoukwa, Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Transport, Dr. Obioma Nwogbe, DG Abia State Strategic Communication Bureau Barr. Onyebuchi Ememanka, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Ctz. Ukoha Njoku Ukoha, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information, Sir Chris Onwuegbu, the State Director of Information, Lady Chika Orji-Nwoke among other top government officials were present during the tour.

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