The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Abia State has said the state was still crawling at 28, contrary to claims by the Okezie Ikpeazu-led administration that it had achieved appreciable progress.
A statement yesterday by the Publicity Secretary, Ebere Uzoukwa, said the state is still crawling at 28. The party blamed past administrations and the incumbent government for the woes the state and its citizens have been subjected to as a result of poor and bad governance.
The statement reads: “We, therefore, wish to reiterate that Abia, as envisioned and created, has not sojourned towards meeting the aspiration and dream of the founding fathers. Our problems, as a people and entity, are expressly and unarguably traced to poor and mundane leadership.
“It is incontrovertible that after 28 years, Abia has remained sickly and stagnant without conspicuously registering economic gains and strides of development as well as social advancement. The most recent and successive administrations have colossally failed in all endeavours to drive the vision upon which Abia was created.
“This occasion of 28 years anniversary, therefore, calls for sober reflection given the fact that nothing at all suggests celebration of any kind. The situation, as bad as it is, also given the obvious failures of the present PDP administration led by Okezie Ikpeazu, should elicit the consciousness to collectively fight bad governance bedeviling our dear state to pave way for development and progress…”