A group, the Abia Renaissance Movement (ARM) has called on the Federal Government to tap from the experience and wisdom of Gov. Theodore Orjir in the areas of security, community engagement and conflict resolution in addressing the challenges at the centre.
The group, in a communiqué issued after its second Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Umuahia and signed by its President-General, Mr. Godwin Adindu, said that Nigeria needs the knowledge and wisdom that Gov. Orji brought to bear in tackling issues in his state at the national level.
ARM added that “the governor’s liberation initiatives have been vindicated by his many achievements and the stability that he brought to the Abia polity and that this should be replicated at the centre”.
According to the group, apart from his infrastructural renewal drives, the governor engendered a new mental orientation towards power and politics in the state and gave freedom to the people. “The liberation was a complete revolution. There is now in Abia a true representative democracy. There is harmony. There are no more human deities of power,” the communiqué reads.
The group said that the principled style administration of Orji has raised the bar in governance and set standards that must be sustained, adding that it is the mandate of ARM to ensure that nobody or group would ever truncate the spirit and the tide of the liberation.
“As a mass movement, we are keenly watching the political process not only of Abia but of the entire nation. But, our particular interest is in Abia. We will take to the streets and confront any system that tries to truncate the will and the course of our progress and whose style constitutes a throw-back to our dark ages,” ARM emphasized.
The group also declared that Abia experienced “twelve years of backwardness” in the hand of the previous rulers of the state and thanked Orji for bringing the much needed change.
On the state of the nation, ARM said Nigeria must remain a united country despite the present challenges and called on the sponsors of the spate of violence in the country to repent as their activities have brought untold hardship to innocent and hapless citizens of this country and have also generated a lot of tension in the country.
247ureports.com reports that the AGM which had as its theme, “Abia: Reviewing the Journey so Far” reviewed the political development of the state since the nascent democracy in 1999 with the verdict that true democracy only came to Abia at the point of the liberation orchestrated by the incumbent governor.
