The attention of the Abia PDP has been drawn to another shenanigan of the Alex Otti administration following his recall of a few members of the Abia State House of Assembly currently on recess who sat within two hours and approved a supplementary budget of N22b for him after he had allegedly induced and compromised them with N300,000 each.
This is grievous, unacceptable, opaque, unaccountable, unconventional and all lovers of democracy and separation of powers should join the Abia PDP to condemn this ignoble act in the strongest term.
Customarily, when a bill is presented to the legislature for passage into a law, it has to go through formal stages notably; First Reading, Second Reading, Committee Stage (for detailed assessment of its merits) Third and Final Reading in a Committee of the Whole House for its adoption or otherwise before it is eventually sent to the governor for his assent.
These stages normally take weeks or months, depending on the priority level of the bill and the Abia PDP is concerned and questions the altruistic motive of the Alex Otti in ensuring that the extant process of law making turned shambolic in this instance because it is practically impossible to pass a bill that would impact positively on Abians in just two hours.
The Abia PDP is more gravely concerned that Alex Otti has continued to assault the foundations of Abia democracy by bringing the House of Assembly under his direct and unworthy influence. This is not the first time he is doing that and he is gradually but unknowingly building a wrong political culture that would haunt Abians if allowed to persist.
Abia PDP calls on all Abians of good conscience to condemn this abnormal process followed by Alex Otti to access money from our collective purse because the process may be speaking to intentions to fritter our collective patrimony.
PDP – Power to the People!
Signed
Hon. Abraham Amah
Abia PDP Vice Chairman/Acting State Publicity Secretary
