{"id":1192,"date":"2014-09-01T17:41:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T17:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2014-09-01T17:41:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T17:41:34","slug":"stop-disparaging-abia-govt-orji-warns-kalu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1192","title":{"rendered":"Stop disparaging Abia govt, Orji warns Kalu"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Governor\u00a0Theodore Orji of Abia State has warned his predecessor, Orji Uzor Kalu, \u201cto stop running down his administration using his (Kalu\u2019s) paper as a conveyor belt.\u201d<\/p>\n

Orji who took exceptions with a media report credited to Anambra-born billionaire politician, Arthur Eze, alleging that \u201cAbia stinks\u201d, accused Kalu of using his medium to \u201ctwist the truth and propagate falsehood.\u201d<\/p>\n

Briefing journalists yesterday in Umuhaia, Commissioner for Information, Eze Chikamnayo, said Eze was quoted out of context by Kalu\u2019s paper in his bid to further rubbish the efforts of Orji to reposition\u00a0 the state.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom what Arthur Eze said, it was obvious he was voicing his concern about\u00a0the 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,\u201d Orji said.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0on key developmental projects in the state.<\/p>\n

He said it was unpatriotic of \u201cthe former Governor to use his paper to turn Arthur Eze\u2019s candid remarks to mean that Abia stinks,\u201d a comment he said Eze had denied when contacted.<\/p>\n

Orji contended that his administration had made remarkable success in infrastructural developments as well as improving the standard of living of Abia residents .<\/p>\n

He said Kalu ought to be a shining example of patriotism and warned him to\u00a0 desist from \u201chis campaigns of calumny against the state government\u00a0 or we will be forced to use every legal means to call him to order.\u201d<\/p>\n

His words: \u201cIt 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Governor\u00a0Theodore Orji of Abia State has warned his predecessor, Orji Uzor Kalu, \u201cto stop running down his administration using his (Kalu\u2019s) paper as a conveyor belt.\u201d Orji who took exceptions with a media report credited to Anambra-born billionaire politician, Arthur Eze, alleging that \u201cAbia stinks\u201d, accused Kalu of using his medium to \u201ctwist the truth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/orji.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-je","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}