‘EMPTY BARRELS’ – OTTI DISMISSES UZOR KALU, ORJI, IKPEAZU OPPOSITION GANG-UP. (PHOTO)
‘Empty barrels’ – Otti dismisses Uzor Kalu, Orji, Ikpeazu opposition gang-up Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has urged Abians to disregard recent remarks by some leaders of the opposition in the state. Governor Otti who was speaking on Saturday at Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Umuoriehi, Umuahia North LGA, during the dedication of the church building, said that those who are gathering against him were the same people that failed to develop the state in the past. Otti was reacting to an alliance formed against his re-election by former Abia governors Orji Uzor Kalu, Theodore Orji and Okezie Ikpeazu. The governor slammed the opposition members for pursuing personal interest above the collective development of Abia, declaring that every gathering they are making against him would collapse. He said, “Pastor Uguru made reference to the noise that you may have been hearing in the last few days. “I want us to just dismiss it as noise, you know, and it’s always the empty barrel that makes...
The Governor of Anambra State,Chief Willie Obiano has described the loss of five members of the Nwigwe family of Urunnebo,Enugwu-Ukwu,Njikoka Local Government as a painful loss.The governor who was represented by the Head of Service ,Prince Harry Uduh stated yesterday at the burial of the victims including a wife,Francisca; three children: Chisom,Ebubechukwu,Ifechukwu and a house-help already buried at Ihiala her home town.Consoling the bereaved the Governor said ''What can you tell a man that lost his wife and four children? It is a very painful loss.I believe in my heart that there is nothing God cannot do.He will surely give the family the fortitude to bear the loss,''.The governor told the family that the government and Ndi Anambra are standing with them at this moment of grief and assured that the state will render assistance to assuage their immediate needs.In her Condolence message,the Wife of the governor,Chief {Mrs} Ebelechukwu Obiano,told the Mr Hyacinth Nwigwe the husband who survived the accident,''take heart and be strong in faith because God in His infinite mercy kept you alife for a good purpose'',The family was involved in a tragic road accident which left the husband,Hyacinth with broken leg on their way from Pilgrimage at Holy Landd,Olo,Enugu State on September 

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