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PioneeR member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Caucus, Sam Nkire, has called on the state governors to borrow a leaf from the Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, in paying teachers, civil servants and pensioners before any political appointee, including the governor and his deputy.
In his Easter message, entitled: “Reflection At Easter,” Nkire, who was also the pioneer leader of the Abia State APC Caucus, reminded all governors of the Biblical injunction, which says ‘a worker deserves his wage’, adding, “payments of salaries and pensions could not be more needed to the worker and pensioner than now.”
The elder statesman said Otti was certainly raising the bar and playing what he described as “come and get me” among his peers and others, thereby making the challenge to his seat in 2027 a herculean one.
According to Nkire, non-payment of salaries and pensions was not in the character of the APC governors and governments, but that of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, adding that any governorship aspirant who hopes to unseat Governor Otti must think of other areas in which he is deficient.
He called on Nigerians to use the period of Easter to pray for the country and the world, against insecurity, wars, hunger and man’s inhumanity to man, as according to him, all people of the world must rest in the love and power of God to salvage bad situations.
