Leadership of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, in Abia State, has accused the Governor Okezie Ikpeazu-led administration of failing the people of the state.
The party said the governor has achieved nothing meaningful within his over one year in office, and urged him to give account of the N60bn allocation he has so far collected.
The party said the state is in a complete halt and inactive in governance in spite of continuous inflow of revenue, thus giving credence to the allegation of diversion of funds belonging to Abians by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP-led government.
Briefing journalists at the party secretariat Wednesday, the state
chairman of APGA, Rev. Augustine Ehiemere, said Abia State paid N28bn as wage bill, arguing that the only few road projects on ground as the achievements of the present administration could not have gulped N32bn in a year.
He also noted that the N1bn agricultural loan that was given to Abia farmers few months ago by the World Bank through the state government had also be hijacked by the state government without a farmer in the state receiving a kobo.
According to Ehiemere, funds meant for local government were also hijacked by the state government without executing any project while also workers salaries for months were not paid.
He added that a state like Abia with numerous sources of internal revenue generation should have no reason to cry over paucity of funds if only the state government had tamed the activities of illegal revenue agents by sanitising all avenues of revenue generation.
The APGA boss also spoke on Ikpeazu’s trips abroad: “On assumption of office, Dr. ikpeazu travelled to different countries, including the United States, Turkey and Czech Republic; in each of the trip which his government claimed was aimed at bringing investors to Abia State, he was accompanied by dozens of aids and associates; unfortunately, up till this moment, not even a single investor has been sited in any part of the state after millions of tax payers money has been fritted away; it is obvious that nothing good can come out of the Ikpeazu’s administration.”