SPEECH DELIVERED BY GOVERNOR OF ABIA STATE, DR. ALEX OTTI, OFR, AT THE INAUGURATION OF THE ABIA STATE ORIENTATION AGENCY ON AUGUST 29, 2023, AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTRE, UMUAHIA, ABIA STATE:

I am very delighted to address you today as we mark another important epoch in our march to the New Abia which promises to be radically different from the old. I welcome and thank you for your steadfastness and unshaking belief that in our lifetime, this land shall return to the path of genuine greatness and collectively, we shall overcome the many obstacles that assail us and bequeath to those coming after us, a better society.

Let me once again congratulate Ndi Abia and our friends at home and in the diaspora on the 32nd anniversary of the creation of our dear state. I am proud of what we have achieved as a people and even more excited about what the future holds. On the evidence of recent developments, I can announce happily that our moment in the sun is here.