Governor Otti clarifies lingering speculations surrounding the appointment of Mrs. Ezinne Chinyere Ben-Kalu, according to him;
“I’ve heard numerous concerns about the appointment of Mrs. Ezinne Chinyere Benjamin Kalu and I’m sure the people don’t know that I personally interviewed and had chat with seven people for that role and the lady that we chose did not only come first but the difference between her and the person that came first was so wide, and this happened last year”
“So we were waiting for an opportunity to reconstitute the board, given that the chief medical director of the teaching hospital was relocating”
“So having now reconstituted the board we believed that it was only proper for us to give the job to the person that came first and that’s what we did,”
“We don’t care wether she’s APC or PDP or Ypp or whatever those are not important, we don’t even care wether she’s from Abia or from delta or from anywhere”
“We are interested in what’s in her brain, we are interested in the contacts that she has and infact one of the things that stood her out from the other six was the international contact that she has”
“It’s just like Mrs. Claire Omatseye that’s here, Claire looks like she’s white but she’s from delta and we are using her in our hospitals because that’s her area, there’s nobody that I know that can compete with her but luckily I’ve known her for several decades, so in Abia we are open to anybody”
“Just come with what’s inside your brain, we don’t want to know where you come from, we don’t want to know your political affiliation, when the time come for voting you go and vote whoever you want to vote but here we want results we want performance and once you have something to offer, we will give you the opportunity.”
Governor Otti made this known on Saturday, 25 April, 2026, during the wedding ceremony of his Aide-de-Camp (ADC), ASP Emeka Ogbonna, to his spouse, Purity, held at the International Conference Centre, Umuahia.
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