The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the attack of the Governor of Abia state, Alex Otti on the leadership of the Anglican Church of Aba Diocese as improper and unacceptable.
Abia PDP Vice Chairman and Acting State, Hon. Abraham Amah, in a statement issued Monday expressed disappointment at the response of the Otti administration to the advice from the Synod of the Anglican Church of Aba Diocese.
TheHintsNews reports that the Synod had in a communique issued after its 17th Synod advised Otti to fix the economic roads in Aba and desist from sacking civil servants employed in the State civil service.
However, the PDP pointed out that rather than take the advice in good faith and make amends, Otti resorted to his usual flagrant display of unimaginable intolerance by bringing a politically irreconcilable angle into the whole saga.
Amah said the governor alleged that one of the signatories of the communique had requested him to exempt her daughter from the mass sack of Abia civil servants which he embarked upon immediately he assumed office.
He stressed that Otti also alleged that the same signatory had requested him to endorse and confirm a factional Chairman of NULGE against the will of the majority of the executive members of the union, and to support the imposition of a certain traditional ruler as the Chairman of the Traditional Rulers Council.
The PDP said it felt embarrassed that the hallowed office of the governor which represents the lofty ideals and aspirations of the good people of Abia State has been reduced to a disorganised motor park office where the Chairman barks orders to his subordinates without checks by any officer.
It was of the opinion that it is the Church is the moral conscience of society and it is its duty to speak truth to power.
The PDP added that for the eight years of the Okezie Ikpeazu administration, the leaders of the Church held him firmly to account and on several occasions commended him as well as knocked him in areas they felt he did not do right but there was never this type of hostile response.
It noted: “In all the queerness of the response, what is most insulting to the members of the 17th Synod of the Anglican Church of Aba Diocese, the entire congregation of the Anglican Communion and in fact to Christendom is for Alex Otti to say that out of the lot of Bishops that attended the Synod and signed the communique only one man, standing behind his personal interest, dictated the letters of the communique and persuaded others to sign a communique whose content is evident even to those who do not live in Abia State.
“Without needing the services of magicians, is it difficult for anyone to know that more than 10,000 civil servants have been sacked in Abia State or that the major roads that deserve attention to spur economic activities in Aba notably, Port Harcourt, Ohanku, Obohia and other roads in Aba and its environs have not been given attention.”
The PDP, therefore, called on Otti to tender a public apology to the Synod and congregation of the Anglican Diocese of Aba for calling to question the integrity of their Bishops, especially in a matter that is clearly evident to everyone.