Otti unveils transition committee members

Abia State Governor-elect, Dr. Alex Otti, has announced a list of professionals and technocrats in business, economics, entrepreneurship and politics as members of the transition council for the preparation of his formal assumption of office on May 29, 2023.

Otti, in a statement issued on Tuesday by the council’s secretariat, said the transition council will help him to articulate a policy document that would forge a direction and developmental agenda for Abia, in line with his vision for the state.

The council will be chaired by Victor Onyenkpa, partner and COO, KPMG, and co-chaired by a former executive chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Ifueko Omogui Okauru.

The list includes former Director General of Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission, Arunma Oteh; a Nigerian-born inventor, who helped Apple design a semiconductor for the iPhone, Prof. Ndubuisi Ekekwe.

Others are the immediate past Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, Uche Orji; Group Managing Director of Aiteo Oil and Gas, Victor Okoronkwo; Founder of ABC Transport Company, Frank Nneji, and the President, Nigeria Association of Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, Ide John Udeagbala.

The council will be inaugurated on Friday, April 14, 2023, by Otti in Aba.

Otti had promised during the campaigns to create a ministry for Aba, to take charge of the urban and physical renewal of the once foremost commercial and industrial hub of South-East Nigeria.