A verbal war has suddenly ensued in the political camp of the Governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu, over the recent demotion of a headmistress to classroom teacher by the state government.
As recently reported byNews Express, the headmistress of a primary school at Amaetiti Asaga Ohafia, in Ohafia Local Government Area, located in Abia North Senatorial District, Abia State, Mrs. Maryellen Ezichi, was demoted to a classroom teacher for demanding for payment of backlog of salary arrears owed teachers when the wife of the governor, Mrs. Nkechi Ikpeazu, visited the school to launch government free meal programme in the school. The request was said to have embarrassed Mrs. Ikpeazu.
The first salvo was reportedly fired on Monday by Don Ubani, Gov. Ikpeazu’s kinsman from Abia North and Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Abia State, who accused the governor’s appointees from Abia North of not doing enough to protect the governor and his wife in the hostile “Abia North”.
He said: “No Adviser worth his salt will advise or encourage the wife of his principal to stray into a domain which hatred and hostility against their principal are not in any way hidden.”
Ubani’s postulations appeared to have infuriated the Deputy Speaker, Abia State House of Assembly, Cosmos Ndukwe, also a close political associate of Gov. Ikpeazu, who accused him of “unwittingly” declaring Abia North an enemy territory of the governor.
Ndukwe, who hails from Abia North, on Tuesday replied: “Don Ubani, abrogating to himself the monopoly of wisdom, had unwittingly declared Abia North an enemy territory, so much that Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu deserves hatred and hostility from the zone. As lost as I am in thought, I can say with utmost certainty that Don Ubani is perfecting on the art of divisive and mindless geo-sectional politics which he has been orchestrating all the while for grossly selfish reasons.”
Efforts to get comment from the Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Ikpeazu, Enyinnaya Appolos, on the development proved abortive as his phones were not reachable as at the time of filling this report.
