Abia State Government has said that the government house immediate-past Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, inaugurated 24 hours before leaving office, is unhabitable. Commissioner for Information, Prince Okey Kanu, recently said that the underdeveloped structure is not qualified to be called a residential building.
Speaking after Ikpeazu’s aides said that the current governor, Gov. Alex Otti, abandoned the new Government House located at Ogurube layout, Umuahia, Okey revealed that the building doesn’t even have the facilities a regular Government house would have.
According to him, there are no wardrobes in the house, and all he saw was empty halls, so he can only question why those who designed the building believed any Governor would be comfortable living in it.
“This place appears inhabitable. There are no wardrobes anywhere. Most of what we saw were just halls, empty halls.
Did anybody see any wardrobe in any of the floors? There were no wardrobes. So this place was never meant, at the initial, to be a residential house.
And one begins to wonder, the person and persons that designed this so called Government House. One begins to wonder what they had in mind when they designed this kind of Government House and expected a Governor, to come and live in this kind of place,” he said.
Okey noted that the building was clearly not completed before Ikpeazu conducted a hurried inauguration, stressing that only the first floor is in good condition.
He stated that Ikpeazu’s aides have been lying blatantly by saying otherwise during their media rounds, and that is the reason why he decided to take the press on a tour of the facility.
The commissioner said that the ex-Governor obviously misused the resources of the state to put up a gigantic structure that is meant to achieve nothing.
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“Only the first floor that appears to have been finished. The rest of the floors were not completed.
Of course, when Dr. ALex Otti spoke about this Government House a few days ago, John Okiyi went to Arise, to go and, as usual, spew falsehood.
Almost everything he said was a lie. Now I brought you people (press men) here to see for yourselves and to confirm what Dr. Alex Otti said.
You can see a lot of the places were not plastered, the elevator, non-installed. The whole place looks dangerous. if anybody missteps there, you can fall through the place to your death.
Granted, you will see a few furniture here. But that is as much as you can see. Nothing on the next floor.
They misused the resources of the state to put up this gigantic edifice that is meant to achieve nothing, so to speak. This place is not habitable,” he added.
