Kaduna set for Milky Way Partnership We’ve no land for it – Benue, Abia, Anambra The issue of Rural Grazing Areas (RUGA) proposed by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to address the herders/farmers crisis in the country has been on the front burner. While some states rejected the initiative, others have embraced it and begun […]
He further said the benefits of the street lights to the people cannot be overemphasised as they would help to improve security and improve the people’s livelihood as it will encourage movement of goods and services within the community.
The State Publicity Secretary of the party, Comrade Benedict Godson, urged the governor to realise that Abia is not his personal property where he owes nobody any explanations.
Reacting, the State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Chief John Okiyi Kalu, said there is a state executive council in place in Abia as required by law.
“We have five commissioners including the attorney general and commissioner for justice and his colleagues for health, finance, information and works in addition to the secretary to state government and the chief of staff to the governor. In due course, the governor will expand his cabinet,” he said.
By Ugochukwu Alaribe
Abia State Commissioner for Information, Chief John Okiyi Kalu, has given reasons why Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu is yet to reconstitute his cabinet, four months after it was dissolved.
Ikpeazu had dissolved his cabinet in January 2021 and retained the Commissioners for Information, Health and Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice.
Okiyi Kalu who reacted to a statement by the state chapter of the All Progressive Congress, APC, over the delay in reconstituting the cabinet, disclosed that the Governor is focused on ensuring the protection of lives and property of the people as well his kinetic Abia programme which has delivered over 120 roads, industrialization and growth of SMEs.
Views: Visits 5 Governor Okezie Ikpeazu By Ugochukwu Alaribe The All Progressive Congress, APC, Abia State, has berated Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu , over the delay in reconstituting his cabinet. Ikpeazu had dissolved his cabinet in January 2021 and retained the Commissioners for Information, Health and Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice. The party in a statement signed by the State Publicity Secretary, Ben Godson, noted that it is over four months the Governor has been running the affairs of the state without Commissioners. “Gov Ikpeazu dissolved Abia State Executive Council in January, retaining only the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Commissioner for Information and the Commissioner for Health.