The All Progressive Grand Alliance APGA Abia State has faulted the Governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu, over the deaccreditation of Abia Polytechnic, Aba.
The National Board for Technical Education had withdrawn the accreditation of the polytechnic, prompting the state government to dissolve the school’s governing council.
In a press statement by the APGA Abia State chairman, Augustine Ehiemere, said the party has “received with deep grief the deaccreditation of the Abia State Polytechnic Aba by the National Board for Technical Education”.
“This sad development is coming on the heels of the withdrawal of the accreditation of the Medical College of the Abia State University Uturu.
“It is necessary to recall that these institutions which preceded the advent of the PDP misrule in Abia State have been hitherto run effectively and efficiently by preceding governments”, the party said.
The party noted further noted, “At the last count the Abia State Polytechnic staffs are being owed up to 29 months which is more than two years in salaries and allowances.
“This is in exception of a total teaching and learning infrastructure collapse in these two institutions that the PDP administration met as centers of excellence. ”
“These developments become evén more intriguing to human understanding when weighed against the fact that even PDP governments in other states of the federation that took office at that same time or even later than the PDP government in Abia have initiated and completed gigantic multi billion naira state institutions in their various states.
“But it does appear that under the PDP government of Abia State, the above expectations have been redefined to looting of the peoples common wealth those who have access to power.”
The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Dr Eze Chikamnayo, had said that the Ikpeazu-led government had consistently remitted about N92 million monthly in the past 78 months of his administration, adding that the problem of the institution was poor management and self-inflicted.
According to Chikamnayo, the polytechnic was an autonomous body set up by law as the government neither recruited workers for the institution nor received funds from it.
