Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has told people of the state to expect multiple inauguration of projects in the state within the next 30 days.
Otti spoke on Sunday during the Interdenominational Thanksgiving Service for his second anniversary, which was held at Ibeku High School in Umuahia.
The governor listed the projects to be inaugurated to include primary healthcare centres, smart schools, retrofitted school buildings, and roads, among others, and assured the people of his commitment to make Umuahia wear the look of a capital city.
After the second anniversary, at the minimum, 30 days, we are going to be commissioning projects.
We have 200 primary healthcare centres spread across the 184 wards. The information available to me is that, at a minimum, half of them are ready for commissioning.
We have schools, including our Smart Schools. We have 20 of them (Smart Schools); at least two of them should be ready for commissioning by now, and 18 of them are receiving serious attention.
We have another 221 schools at different stages of rebuilding and retrofitting; they would also be ready.
A lot of roads have been completed and will be commissioned within the next 30 days.
Umuahia will continue to wear a new look. It would continue to look like a state capital. Gone are the days when they used to tell us that our state capital looks like a glorified village. It will never be again, in Jesus name,” Otti stated.
Otti, who stressed the need for people to be conscious of God’s faithfulness and return thanks to God, said that the essence of the thanksgiving service was to thank God for the things He has done for Abia State in the last two years.
We are here to thank God. Because when you listen to people, they would say, We worked well for this mandate. It’s always good for us to realise that it is God who gives the increase.
We are just thanking God. This is thanksgiving. Because it’s very easy, like I always say, to take the blessing and run away and forget is easy, just like the lepers that were healed,” he said.
He thanked the guest speaker, Rev. Sam Oye, for his devotion and prayers for Abia State and the revelation God gave him about Abia and himself (the governor), which brought about his emergence as Abia State Governor.
He saluted the Church and the entire Abia people and residents for their support for him since 2015.
In his sermon, the lead pastor of The Transforming Church, Rev. Sam Oye, while recalling how the Lord showed him in 2022 the prosperity that awaits Abia State at the emergence of a leader like Otti, disclosed that God specifically told him about the great economic growth that the leadership of Otti would bring to the state.
