Uzor Kalu, "to stop running down his administration using his (Kalu's)
paper as a conveyor belt."
Orji who took exceptions with a media report credited to Anambra-born
billionaire politician, Arthur Eze, alleging that "Abia stinks",
accused Kalu of using his medium to "twist the truth and propagate
falsehood."
Briefing journalists yesterday in Umuhaia, Commissioner for
Information, Eze Chikamnayo, said Eze was quoted out of context by
Kalu's paper in his bid to further rubbish the efforts of Orji to
reposition the state.
According to Orji, the Anambra billionaire who spoke during the Abia
@23 celebration was only expressing his dissatisfactions with the
deplorable condition of the Enugu-Port Harcourt expressway, and never
referred to Abia internal roads as misrepresented by the said report.
"From what Arthur Eze said, it was obvious he was voicing his concern
about the state of the Enugu-Port Harcourt express way since he drove
in from Enugu and passed through the Okigwe section of the highway
which is in a very terrible state," Orji said.Orji noted that even
members of the Abia State House of Assembly had recently passed a
motion calling on the Federal Government to speed up the repair of the
highway which has been on slow pace, adding that himself had also been
positively engaging the FG on key developmental projects in the
state.He said it was unpatriotic of "the former Governor to use his
paper to turn Arthur Eze's candid remarks to mean that Abia stinks," a
comment he said Eze had denied when contacted.
Orji contended that his administration had made remarkable success in
infrastructural developments as well as improving the standard of
living of Abia residents .
He said Kalu ought to be a shining example of patriotism and warned
him to desist from "his campaigns of calumny against the state
government or we will be forced to use every legal means to call him
to order."His words: "It is only obvious that Kalu is intimidated by
the towering achievements recorded by the current administration in
Abia, a feat which could not be achieved in his eight years of
maladministration."
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