Abia State government has described the opposition in the state as nothing more than people who fell out of favour from the largesse of the government, and whose only manifesto was to abuse the state’s chief executive.

Special Adviser, Media, to the governor, Mr. Ben Onyechere, disclosed this in a chat with newsmen in Abuja yesterday.

According to him, the opposition is an after -thought as everybody that matters in Abia is working with the governor and in agreement that Abia should reap and harness the benefits of a cordial relationship existing between the presidency and the state government.

He said: “It is noteworthy that rather than provide answers or dwell on issues, the contestants are raining insults on the executive governor which is directly abusing the sensibilities of the people of Abia State who collectively voted the governor to power.

“These people who have, at one time or the other, worked with the governor  are disillusioned because of either allowances or outright refusal of the governor to sign and award frivolous  and ill-conceived contracts. It is, in fact, unbelievable that some one can say that nothing has changed in Abia, since after the act of liberation was performed by the governor or will they also deny that there was no liberation.”

He noted that the opposition’s attitude smacked of deceit, saying “it depicts that the extraordinary intervention of the president and tireless efforts of the governor in Abia, in terms of security and infrastructural development, does not count in their conscience which in itself is an indictment on the generality of Abia people who had supported their governor in his quest to link the state to the national grid, which could make for faster development of Abia as is already being effected.”

He stated that the governor of Abia State was aware that most of the few individuals were  actually out to be settled, adding that  the governor refused to bulge because it was not in his character to bribe people.

According to him, hardly is there any aspect of the lives of Abians that is not prominently touched, and that this is verifiable up to the local government area and rural communities.

“That the governor won election from prison is an attestation that he can win it out of prison, as he is not the first in that manner, afterall Obasanjo did the same, most of all Joseph became Prime Minister of Egypt from prison,” he said.