5. Theodore Ahamafule Orji (TA Orji)
Interestingly, TA Orji succeeded another Orji, in the person of Orji Uzor Kalu, the governor of Abia state between 1999 and 2007. TA Orji governed from 2007 to 2015. He was the former chief of staff to the former, Orji Uzor Kalu. Before TA Orji became the governor in 2007, he had corruption charges against him by the EFCC. It was even said that if he had not become the governor and enjoyed immunity afterwards, he would have been prosecuted by the anti-graft agency and by extension jailed.
Currently, he may not be holding a tangible political office; however he is a member of the upper house of the legislative arm. He is a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria representing one of the 3 senatorial districts of Abia state.
The Sun newspaper of Thursday, July 23 had a story captioned, “How Ex Gov Orji, Wife, Son Squandered N474bn In Abia.”
In a petition sent by Save Abia Initiative for Change, a voluntary association of concerned citizens to the EFCC against the governor, his wife and his son in the same newspaper, the petition had it that the governor mismanaged funds released by the federal government to the state. The petition stated that from January 2011 to March 2015, the federal monthly allocation to the state was N383 billion, total excess crude oil fund was about N55 billion and N33.6 billion Sure-P funds released between 2012 and 2014.
Despite all these monies, there was no substantial infrastructural development in the state during TA Orji’s governorship tenure as all the roads are now dead traps and other infrastructures are all broken down.
–Naij
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