By Eric Ugbor

ABA — FORMER deputy governor of Abia State, Chris Akomas, has made a sudden return to the political scene amidst rousing welcome by hundreds of his supporters who thronged to Sam Mbakwe Airport Owerri to welcome him.

Akomas, who was governorship aspirant on the platform of Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, in the last general elections, served as deputy to incumbent governor, Theodore Orji, in his first term in 2010, but contested against his former boss.

He lost the election and, thereafter, steered clear of the political scene until his recent foray into politics again.

Sources said he may contest under All Progressives Congress, APC.

However, the mammoth crowd that greeted Akomas on arrival at Sam Mbakwe International Airport, Imo State, almost four years after staying off both national and state issues, showed that the former Abia number two still has his supporters intact.

Unconfirmed report has it that the former deputy governor may likely contest for the position of governorship in 2015 in the state under the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Akomas, who made his first public appearance at the Palace of Enyi 1 of Aba, Eze Isaac Ikonne, said: “It is time for us to come together to make our state better. If there are people with pockets of efforts to improve on Abia State, let us make those pockets of efforts into a sea or ocean that flows with force to make Abia and Nigeria better. Let us come together to improve on the welfare of our people, to grow our economy better than what we have today.”

On his absence from public scene, the former deputy governor said: “Let me confirm that politics is part of our living. We are all political animals and once you are involved, you continue. I may not be making

noise. I may not have made noise, but I have been in politics.

“There is time to be public and time to be private. It is time to come public so that our people’s situation can improve.”