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Because of your resilience we remain hopeful, Abia group tells Otti @57
Abia Freedom Alliance (AFA), a group of concerned Abia technocrats, professionals, businessmen and religious leaders, has sent a thank-you message to Dr Alex Otti, for the sacrifice he has been making towards the political liberation of Abia State.
The group, in a statement on Friday, to celebrate Otti’s 57th birthday, said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain and former gubernatorial candidate in Abia State has impacted positively on the lives of Abia citizens.
“Because of your resilience, we remain hopeful and can see light at the end of the tunnel,” AFA affirmed in the statement signed by its Convener, Prince Uzor Nwachukwu.
The group expressed gratitude that Otti, a first-class economist and distinguished former bank chief executive officer, is not relenting in his effort to pull Abia State from those it described as “vultures” and “buccaneers”.
The statement reads in part: “We congratulate our Leader, Dr Alex Chioma Otti OFR, on the occasion his 57th birthday anniversary, February 18.
“We join numerous of your friends across the world and the teeming population of your supporters and admirers in Abia State, indeed Nigeria, to congratulate you as you celebrate yet another remarkable season in your fruitful life.
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“We note with joy your various accomplishments and how you have impacted positively on the lives of our fellow citizens in Abia State. Through your acts of charity and benevolence, you have touched the lives of the weak, poor and down-trodden; through your intellectual endowment, you continue to enrich and illuminate minds; you have, and still, used your position in corridors of power, influence and authority in the corporate world to create wealth and empower numerous of our people. We could go on and on.
“On this anniversary of your birth, we want to thank you for your sacrifice for our dear State, Abia; the efforts you have continued to make to deliver Abia from the political, economic and social doldrum that she has been cast into by a bunch of few, who has held the state hostage in the past 22 years and whose only interest is self.
“We are indeed grateful that you are not deterred, neither are you discouraged, by the shenanigans and seeming intractable nature of Abia politics, as has been weaved by a gathering of vultures and buccaneers, hiding under an evil umbrella.
“Because of your resilience, we remain hopeful and can see light at the end of the tunnel.
“Our prayer for you as you celebrate is that God will continue to protect you from every prying evil eye and perfect all that concerns you and your destiny with Abia. “Happy birthday, to the Pride of Abia, Ugwu Abia!”
