Resign or we force you out!

Abia state chapter of National Conscience Party (NCP) has called on governor of the state, Chief Theodore Ahamefuna Orji to resign from office immediately. (Picture shows Governor T.A Orji of Abia state)

This call is contained in a press release recently from the party made available to KlinReports.

In the release entitled: ‘Abia NPC demands Gov. Orji’s immediate resignation’, dated April 14, 2009, the party decries what it describes as an alarming increase in spate of kidnapping for ransom and armed robbery in Abia state.

The statements states: ‘The National Conscience Party (NCP), Abia state chapter wishes to express its disgust over alarming increase in the spate of kidnapping for ransom and armed robbery in Abia state. NCP is not surprised that criminal activities in the state are spinning out of control since the professor Morris{sic} Iwu – led Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) imposed Chief T. A. Orji on the people of the state; because, as the Holy Scriptures say, ‘Righteousness exacts a nation but sin (Governor Orji) is a reproach to any nation (Abia). Considering that the continued governing of Abia state by Theodore Orji will continue to spell doom for its citizenry, NCP calls on him to resign by May 31, 2009’.

The party expresses its resolve to join forces with other revolutionary elements in the state to ensure that Governor Orji is humiliated out of office, saying, ‘Otherwise NCP shall not hesitate to join forces with revolutionary forces in the state to mobilize the masses for humiliation of Governor Orji out of office through democratic means.

In a similar development, Barr C. C. Emelogu, an Aba based constitutional and human rights lawyer, blames the high level of insecurity in Abia state on the level of unemployment in the state.

According to the legal practitioner, ‘What generates high level unemployment in the state is that past and present leaders of the state do not consider it a priority to build industries or revitalize the old ones. You will agree with me that before and after the Nigeria civil war, various regional and, later, state governments had as a priority building of industries in the regions and, then, in the state, like what Dr. M. I. Okpara and Sam Mbakwe did in the defunct Eastern Region and former Imo state before Abia and Ebonyi states were created.

Emelogu, also, blamed the inactivity of the political leaders on the plight of the state.

Says he: ‘Unfortunately, we have witnessed wrong persons occupying state seat of power at Umuahia. And who do not know the anger of the youths rise more when they discover that the men and women at the helm of their affairs embezzle and siphon out billions of naira enough to build industries, revive old ones and create jobs for the unemployed youths’.