Abia at 35: Otti celebrates state anniversary, says Abia is ‘only just beginning’
The governor paid tribute to past leaders, including the late Ogbonnaya Onu, the state’s first democratically elected governor, as well as former governors Orji Kalu, Theodore Orji and Okezie Ikpeazu.
In a tweet on X after the lecture, Mr Chidoka said former governor Orji Uzor Kalu had, at the beginning of the Fourth Republic, positioned Abia prominently in national politics at a time when the South-east was seeking a stronger voice.
Mr Otti made the remarks in a statewide broadcast to mark the anniversary of the state’s creation on 27 August 1991.
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