* Inauguration comes up Apr 14 in Aba
Preparatory to his inauguration on May 29, the Abia State Governor-elect, Dr. Alex Otti, has constituted his transition council made up of distinguished professionals, technocrats in business, economics, entrepreneurship and politics.
The Governor-elect said the Transition Council will help to articulate the policy direction and developmental agenda for Abia, in line with his vision for the State.
The Council will be chaired by Victor Onyenkpa, Partner and COO, KPMG, and cochaired by Ifueko Omogui Okauru, a former Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).
Arunma Oteh, former Director General of Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); former Treasurer and Vice President of the World Bank and currently a Director at FSD Africa, an international development agency focused primarily on financial markets in sub-Saharan Africa, is also on the Council.
Other notable members are Professor Ndubuisi Ekekwe, a Nigerian-born inventor who helped Apple design a semiconductor for the iPhone; Mr. Uche Orji, the immediate past CEO of Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA); Victor Okoronkwo, GMD of Aiteo Oil and Gas; Mr. Frank Nneji, Founder of ABC Transport Company; and Ide John Udeagbala, an Aba-based business mogul.
The Council is billed to be inaugurated in Aba on Friday, April 14, 2023, by the Governor-elect himself.
The choice of Aba, the commercial nerve centre of Abia State, for the inauguration of the Council, is strategic as well as significant with the Enyimba City being the centerpiece of the incoming Alex Otti government’s economic and infrastructural development plan.
Otti had promised during the campaigns to create a ministry for Aba, to take charge of the urban and physical renewal of the once foremost commercial and industrial hub of South East Nigeria.