The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Dr
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has charged the Abia Governor-elect, Dr Alex Otti, to run
clean and transparent governance.
Okonjo-Iweala said the incoming government should focus on
“disruptive strategies rather than traditional operational systems”.
She gave the charge in a speech she presented virtually at
the inauguration of the 100-member 2023 Abia Transition Council held in Aba,
Abia’s economic hub.
She said: “I told the governor-elect that everything we will
do would depend on this governance.
“Nigerians, especially from that side of the South-East,
have lost faith in governance.
“They no longer believe the government can provide anything
for them.
“They provide for themselves boreholes, electricity and
every other thing for themselves.
“Although that is entrepreneurial, on the other hand, that
is not how to run the place,” the Nigeria-born economic expert said.
She urged Otti to run a “better and cleaner governance” and
transparent governance that should be exemplary.
Okonjo-Iweala also urged Abia citizens abroad, who have the
capacity to assist in recovering the state and upgrade development, to return
and help out.
She expressed the hope that through Otti, “there is a unique
chance to set Abia on the right side of development and modernisation through
disruptive digital technology”.
She advised the governor-elect to think of how to make Abia function in line with the modern world and join the train into the future of humanity.
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We voted Otti Alex for a positive change in governance. Administrations before him have done their bit that was not good enough for the state. We just want proper development of the state. It is our belief that Otti can deliver.
ReplyDeleteWe all pray he do well for they state
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