The Senior Special Adviser to Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State on Agricultural Empowerment Programmes, Mr. Obinna Ndukwe Ibiam, has resigned his position.
The reason for his resignation was believed to be over an unknown feud with his principal.
While stating his reasons for resigning the position, Ibiam told the public to hold Governor Ikpeazu responsible should anything bad happen to him or any member of his family.
Ibiam, in a statement delivered to newsmen, on Sunday, in Umahia, the Abia State capital, said he had tried in his capacity to serve the governor and the state well, but that his principal had proved he did not mean well for him (Ibiam) and residents of the state, most especially the youths.
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Ibiam also said Governor Ikpeazu had shown through his body language to be in total disregard in replicating what his counterparts in Ebonyi, Imo, Akwa Ibom, Anambra and Enugu states had done in their respective states, specifically to their unemployed youths to create jobs through Agricultural Empowerment and boost the economy of their people and their State IGR from food production.
Ibiam stated that he resigned his position over unconcerned attitudes and deliberate refusal of the state government to implement policies to enhance the empowerment and development of Abia youths.
He accused the state government of frustrating key agricultural programs being run in the administration and expressed dismay that the administration was yet to implement the programs despite the approval of the 50 million naira counterpart funds to the Bank of Agriculture for the empowerment of over 3,000 unemployed Abians.
Ibiam, however, hinted that Governor Ikpeazu had failed to release the approved N50 million counterpart funds through the Accountant General of the State, Kelechi Imeoria, which he alleged that Ikpeazu used in putting Abia in a sorry unimaginable backward state hence the reason the high insecurity in the state.
He said the agricultural programme would guarantee soft loans for the participants, to be empowered in order to make them self reliant and wealth creators to boost food security, job creation and internally generated revenue of the state.
Ibiam, who also served as Special Adviser to ex-Governor Orji Uzor Kalu, disclosed that he had appealed to the governor’s wife through letters, domestic aides and brothers, to help him and humanity for the release of the approved counterpart funds, which scaled through budget approval by the Abia State House of Assembly.
He also insisted that the governor has refused to fulfil his mutual contractual agreement and assurances with him till this day of his resignation from office, saying that he was leaving the Government in peace.