Ikpeazu Removes Appellations From Name

Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has directed that the appellations; His Excellency and Executive be “dropped in all official and informal communication with him.” The governor said he simply wants to be addressed as Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, Governor of Abia State.

He made this known in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Godwin Adindu, in Akwa, the state capital.

Ikpeazu also ordered “the general public to remove all congratulatory posters and election billboards” across the state, pointing out that they are “defacing the environment of the state.”

The governor said he would want “all public communication to be concentrated on the work and policies of the state” and not on him, while further directing “all contractors, political groups, individuals and party loyalists not to put his portrait on billboards, posters and signages but to only use the pictures of ongoing projects” as replacement.

He “charged the people of the State to be partners with Government in ensuring a healthy and beautiful environment”, while also “re-assuring the good people of Abia State of his mission of service to the people and therefore urged the citizenry to key into the new vision.”