S’East Govs seriously engaging relevant authorities for Kanu’s release — Otti

By Steve Oko

UMUAHIA — Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has assured that contrary to perceptions successful immoderate quarters, South East governors person not abandoned the detained person of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

Speaking during a media parley connected Thursday nighttime successful Umuahia, Otti said the governors are actively engaging applicable authorities to unafraid Kanu’s release, but stressed that not each efforts are meant for nationalist disclosure.

“Some of the engagements and assurances we person received are not for nationalist depletion since it whitethorn derail the process. But you tin instrumentality it for granted that, arsenic his Governor, I’m astatine the forefront of ensuring helium comes backmost home. All the South East governors are unneurotic successful this,” Otti said.

His clarification came a time aft Igbo elders from crossed the South East staged a protestation astatine Government House, Umuahia, implicit Kanu’s continued incarceration. The elders accused governmental leaders successful the portion of neglecting the IPOB person and urged Otti to rally his colleagues to prosecute President Bola Tinubu connected the matter.

Otti expressed optimism that ongoing engagements would output affirmative results.

On the recurring communal clashes betwixt Itu assemblage successful Arochukwu Local Government Area of Abia and its Cross River neighbours, which person displaced galore residents, Otti said the authorities authorities is moving with the governments of Cross River and Akwa Ibom States to reconstruct peace.

He attributed the unit to unverified reports of earthy resources, peculiarly limestone, successful the disputed area, adding that Abia Deputy Governor, Ikechukwu Emetu, has been starring talks with counterparts from neighbouring states successful Abuja to resoluteness the crisis.

“So delight reassure the displaced radical that they are not abandoned and that precise soon they volition instrumentality to their ancestral homes,” helium said.

Governor Otti further reiterated his committedness to improving Abia, vowing not to succumb to blackmail but to stay unfastened to constructive criticism. He lamented that immoderate individuals edifice to mischief, distortion of facts, and politically motivated attacks but insisted specified actions would not distract his administration.

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