Barely a month after he jettisoned the 30-year development plan inherited from his predecessor, Abia State Governor, Alex Otti has made a u-turn to implement the plan.
Otti had last month rejected the 30-year development plan initiated by Okezie Ikpeazu, saying that “it is unrealistic” and could not implement based on current economic realities.
He specifically stated that, “what we are doing is short-term (development plan) of three years”.
But all that has changed as the Commissioner for Information, Prince Okey Kanu, yesterday announced the government was now set to rebase and update the 30 -year development plan of the state.
He made this known while briefing journalists on the outcome of the first meeting of the State Executive Council in year 2025, saying that re-basing has become necessary given the prevailing economic headwinds.
According to him, the vagaries of the Nigerian economy as typified by the headline inflation being experienced in the country today were taken into consideration.
He stated the government has decided to implement the long-term development plan in a way that “reflects the real position of the state’s economy”.
Kanu said the state economic team has been charged with the task of rebasing the development plan, adding that the team “is already at work to ensure the success of the exercise”.
Abia’s 30-year development plan which runs from 2020 to 2050 was launched and formally adopted on April 7, 2021 by the immediate past government in collaboration with the PIND Foundation with support from the European Union.
