Ex-DIG rates Ikpeazu’s performance in Abia low

A former Deputy Inspector General of Police, Mr. Azubuko Udah, has rated the administration of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu in Abia State very low.
Udah said that the Ikpeazu government was a huge failure and urged the people to vote it out in 2019.
The former police chief said this while speaking to our correspondent after a courtesy visit to the state Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Hon Donatus Nwankpa, at the party’s secretariat on Azikiwe Road in Umuahia, the state capital.
He said that the current administration lacked focus and the determination to deliver on its campaign promises, saying since it assumed office almost three years ago, the state had yet to witness any meaningful development.
According to him, the solution to the problems was not only in voting out the Peoples Democratic Party-led administration, but to go for the opposition APC, which he said possessed the ideas to drive the state.
“We have had enough of this deceit. We can no longer continue in this direction if we want to move forward. The alternative to this is for us to vote it out for the APC,” he said.
The former police boss said that by being in the opposition, the state had been losing so much patronage from the APC-led Federal Government, urging the people to use the opportunity of the 2019 general elections to address the issue.
“It is high time we stopped being in a regional party that is almost moribund. It is now time we liberate our state from its grip. It is very hard to operate as opposition in this country,” he added.
Similarly, another stalwart of the party, Chief Daniel Okereke, described the state of infrastructure in the state as deplorable, accusing the administration of insensitivity about the plight of the people.
“I have always wondered what has been happening to our allocations from the Federation Account and the Internally Generated Revenue. Does it mean they are not enough to address them?” he asked.
In his response, the APC state chairman said that the party was spreading like wide fire across the state, adding that many notable politicians from the state were about to defect to its fold.