By VINCENT UJUMADU

AWKA — ANAMBRA State governor, Mr. Peter Obi, said yesterday that he did not sign any agreement with Chief Willie Obiano, the state’s governor-elect, noting that his only interest was to ensure that a credible person was elected to continue the good governance which the state has witnessed during his administration.

Speaking at the Alex Ekwueme Square, Awka, where he distributed 90 vehicles to directors and officials in the local government system, Obi said God had blessed him abundantly, that attempting to act as a distraction to a governor he helped to win, would amount to committing abominable sin.

Obi said: “I have enough for myself and my only concern is for the new governor to be able to meet the aspirations of our people.”

Gov Obi

According to him, the present administration will continue to work till the last day and those who feel that some of the things done by government are for the election are missing the point, as he will continue to do more work for the state.

He observed that the problem with governance in Nigeria was because people had refused to change the way they did things.

Governor Obi insisted that the best way to meet the yearnings of the people was to serve the public with their money, stressing that diverting public funds to personal pockets would always bring a curse to those concerned.

On the vehicles being distributed to various categories of workers, Obi argued that if an elected chairman of a local government or any other politician could be given a vehicle immediately he was elected, there was no reason a civil servant that had put in 25 years in the service should not get a car.

On the ongoing recruitment of 7,000 civil servants in the state, Obi said his government had set aside the money to pay them for two years, which he put at about N5 billion.

The money, he explained, was already secured in the bank in order not to encumber the incoming governor.

He also said the recruitment had been structured in such a way that all the towns in the state would be given a sense of belonging by ensuring that at least 10 persons each were recruited from all the towns in the state.