The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has chastised Abia State Governor Alex Otti for his attack on the leadership of the Anglican Church, Aba Diocese, calling it unprofessional and immoral.
In a statement issued on Monday, Abia PDP Vice Chairman and Acting State Chairman, Hon. Abraham Amah, expressed unhappiness with the Otti administration’s response to the recommendation from the Synod of the Anglican Church of Aba Diocese contained in a communique issued following its 17th Synod.
The church had encouraged the government to repair the economic highways in Aba and to stop dismissing state civil personnel.
Instead of taking the suggestion in good faith and making amends, Otti resorted to his typical flagrant display of unthinkable intolerance by injecting a politically irreconcilable perspective into the entire incident, according to him.
According to the PDP, the Governor said that one of the communique’s signatories asked him to exempt her daughter from the mass sacking of Abia civil officials that he began as soon as he took office.
Otti, according to Amah, also requested that he endorse and confirm a factional Chairman of NULGE against the will of the majority of the union’s executive members, as well as support the imposition of a certain traditional ruler as Chairman of the Traditional Rulers Council.
“In all the strangeness of the response, what is most insulting to the members of the 17th Synod of the Anglican Church of Aba Diocese, the entire congregation of the Anglican Communion, and indeed to Christendom is for Alex Otti to say that out of the many Bishops who attended the Synod and signed the communique, only one man dictated the letters of the communique and persuaded others to sign a communique whose content is unknown.”
“Is it difficult for anyone to know, without the services of magicians, that more than 10,000 civil servants have been sacked in Abia State, or that the major roads that deserve attention to spur economic activities in Aba, notably Port Harcourt, Ohanku, Obohia, and other roads in Aba and its environs, have not been given attention?”
The PDP found it peculiar that Otti would be the one blaming the previous administration of not following established processes in the execution of government business while he is directly responsible for the offense.
The main opposition party emphasized that Otti did not follow due process in many of his actions in Abia State since taking office, and that he had violated all existing civil service laws, among other things.