Abia: I don’t tolerate godfathers, won’t become one — Alex Otti

Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has said helium volition neither go a governmental godfather nor enforce a successor connected the authorities aft completing his 2nd word successful bureau successful 2031.

Otti made the declaration on Thursday in Umuahia portion receiving the erstwhile Social Democratic Party, SDP, governorship candidate, Mrs Ngozi Johnson Chukwunenye, and her supporters into the Labour Party, LP.

According to the governor, enactment succession should beryllium based connected merit and competence alternatively than a “sit-tight” culture.

He expressed assurance that whoever succeeds him would beryllium amended equipped to supply prime enactment for the radical of Abia State.

“The astir important happening you tin springiness a radical is bully governance.

“And erstwhile radical trial bully governance, it volition beryllium precise hard for them to let you to instrumentality them back.

“So, if you are acrophobic that we volition spell backmost to Egypt, it volition ne'er happen. What I tin guarantee you is that, by the clip I’m done, the idiosyncratic who volition win maine volition beryllium amended than me.

“I don’t privation to beryllium a godfather, and I don’t tolerate godfathers.

“We volition each beryllium down, look astatine everybody and say, ‘Who is the champion idiosyncratic for this job?’ Then each of america volition agree, and we volition run for him.

“He volition win, and we volition instrumentality a backmost ...