The governor of Abia State, Dr. Alex Otti has assured that no civil servant in the state?s civil service without passing through the normal process.

Governor Otti, speaking during the December edition of his monthly media chat with journalists and Abians held at the State?s Banquet Hall, Government House, Umuahia, the state capital stated that, under his watch, promotion of civil servants would be based on merit.

This is coming on the heels of mass failure recorded during the just concluded promotion/confirmation examination conducted by the state government for its workers.

?If you sit for an examination and you probably didn?t prepare very well, there are greater chances that you will fail than you will pass.

?I have also gotten feedback from some of the people who took the exams to say that in the past everyone who took the exams will pass, but everyone cannot pass this time.

?The directive that they should go and sit for the exam once again is the right direction.

?But I am not too sure that we are where we will ask anybody to leave because you didn?t pass, you may just be where you are until you Pass? the governor said.

Governor Otti said the security architecture of the state is being rejigged to nip in the bud completely, the new trend of crime in some parts of the state, assuring Abians coming home for the yuletide of adequate security.

The state chief executive who informed that he had on Tuesdaypresented the 2025 budget estimate to the State House of Assembly amounting to N750 billion reiterated that about 82 percent of the budget is for capital expenditure while about 18 percent would go on recurrent expenditure.

?Some people have made comments about the size of the budget. When you look at the size in absolute terms, it would look high, but if the budget size with over 30 percentinflation and exchange rate depreciation, then the difference is not even as much as it looks

?The important thing is that every budget is an aspiration. It is an aspiration that is founded on logic.

?Budgets entrusted become the budget realistic and at the end of the day you would have implemented it. It is all about planning.? Otti explained. (The Nation)