Otti: Political Crisis Can’t Distract Fubara from Improving the Welfare of His People

•Says power belongs to God 

•I inherited huge debt from Wike, Rivers governor declares

Blessing Ibunge in Port Harcourt

Abia State Governor, Dr Alex Otti, said he did not believe any distraction was enough to take the focus of his Rivers State counterpart, Siminalayi Fubara, from improving the interest and welfare of the people.

Otti spoke when he inaugurated the reconstructed 10.89KM Aleto-Ogale-Ebubu-Eteo Road in Eleme Local Government Area.

That was as Fubara revealed that a huge debt burden was left behind for his administration to settle, with several contractors who handled different projects for the immediate past administration of Nyesom Wike, under whom he was Accountant-General.

Otti commended Fubara for remembering to execute a road project in Eleme community, where he once lived.

The Abia State governor stated, “I have always said it that leadership is about service. Anytime leadership departs from service, then, you are getting it wrong. Service should be service to the people, not service to self or very few interests. Anytime you are serving few people rather than the majority, you need to go and look at yourself again.

“So, for me, it’s all about good governance. Clearly, Governor Fubara came prepared, and I don’t believe that any distraction is enough to take his focus away from improving the welfare and interest of the people.

“So, I can assure you, Rivers people, that the dividends of democracy that you are seeing now is still a dress rehearsal. It is early in the morning, and I am sure that in no distant future, you will be seeing more.”

The Abia State governor charged Eleme and the people of Rivers State to continue to support their governor to do more to make life easy for the majority.

He said no matter how the dice was flipped, “Power belongs to God. No human can arrogate to himself the capacity to give power, except you have the capacity to give life. Of course, you can take life, but you cannot give it.”

Fubara, while speaking on the ongoing projects in the state, emphasised, “This is to let the world know that if there is one problem this administration has, it is the huge debt burden. Most of the projects that are being commissioned, the contractors are coming for their balance-payment and it is running into billions.

“I have said that I don’t want to talk. I don’t want to talk because I was part of that system. But, when you keep pushing me to talk, I will say it so that the people will know the true situation of things and be properly informed.”

He added, “What we are doing today, is it not help to the federal government? Is it not to show that this government has the interest of the people at heart and it is supporting and doing everything to make the federal government succeed?

“So, when people come out and say some funny things, I laugh. Why are we doing this? When this administration came on board, Mr President christened his mantra ‘Renewed Hope’ to give Nigerians hope.

“What we are doing today in this state is giving our people that hope to complement what Mr President is doing at the national level. It is not about social media. We are talking about action. Genuine actions that make positive impact in the lives of our people.”

Fubara explained that the rationale behind the invitation extended to Otti, to inaugurate the project, was that he was not an artificial integrity man but a pragmatic man.