In a situation that is now a regular
occurrence, Governor Theodore Orji was
again booed and pelted with sachet
water on Tuesday at Onu-Imo market at
the boundary between Abia and Imo
states.
The governor is widely disregarded by
traders in Abia State because of his
indifference to their plight in Aba, the
commercial nerve centre of the state. He
was on his way to Owerri Airport en
route to Abuja when traders, who heard
the siren of his motorcade, trooped out to
the road, armed with bags of sachet
water, jeered and booed him, shouting,
“Onye-oshi vote, Onye-oshi vote,”
meaning one that steals votes.
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According to The Sun, Orji was suspected
to be travelling to Abuja to pressurise the
electoral body, the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) to have the
state’s governorship election, already
declared inconclusive, declared in his
favour.
Orji and his party, the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), allegedly hijacked the electoral
process when the governorship
candidate of the All Progressives Grand
Alliance (APGA) was comfortably coasting
to to victory.
Some of the traders, including Chinedu
Nwankwo, James Orakwue and Kingsley
Maduagwu, said it was worrisome that
Governor Orji and his son, Chinedu, could
be wasting billions of public funds on the
INEC to win their elections as legislators
and impose their surrogate on the people,
when workers and pensioners were
owed several months of salaries and
pensions.
They said: “The billions of naira being
lavished by this heartless family is the
money meant for the development of Aba
and Abia, which Orji abandoned, as well
as the payment of salaries of workers and
pensioners. God will one day bring Orji to
judgment, in or out of office. He must
answer for his inhumanity to the people
of Abia, non-indigenes, traders, teachers,
doctors and medical personnel, whose
destinies he has toiled with for eight
years of his administration,” he
concluded.

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