“I Don’t Respond To Political Jobbers” – Abia Speaker, Hon. Chinedum Orji

Following his criticism by an appointee of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, Speaker of Abia State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Chinedum Enyinnaya Orji has it’s not in his character to respond to people he described as political jobbers.

Chief Don Ubani, the Deputy Chief of Staff to the Abia Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu had in a recent article taken a swipe at the Abia Speaker, questioning why he paid a visit to the Senate leader, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, leader of opposition in the state.

Describing Chief Ubani’s comment as a needless uproar, the Speaker in a release on Thursday signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Jude Ndukwe made available to ABN TV, said he will not respond to rantings of people he called political jobbers.

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“Following the needless uproar generated by self-seeking and self-appointed political lackeys in Abia State over the recent visit of the Speaker of Abia State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Chinedum Enyinnaya Orji, to Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, the Rt Hon Speaker does not and will not, in his usual calm mien, respond to the rantings of political jobbers known to be working for their bosses with vaulting ambitions.

“He will not be part of any ploy to irritate him into joining issues with such lackeys to heat up our otherwise peaceful polity as they were nowhere to be found when the fight for Dr Okezie Ikpeazu to be Governor was spearheaded.

“Since they are not wise enough to sincerely engage Mr Speaker with a view to finding out what actually transpired at the visit but have chosen to become needlessly belligerent, Mr Speaker does not owe anyone of them any explanation whatsoever, except to the Executive Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, and his colleagues in the House.

“He will, therefore, keep ignoring the rants of these political jobbers,” he said.