For the record purposes, can you tell us what happened? Did you resign your position as the Deputy Governor?

I actually resigned, I resigned on the 7th,of March but knowing that he would in his characteristic manner of evasions and half truth and denials that he would say that I didn't in order to carryout any other thing he intend to do. I sent it by DHL for which I have the copy and I also have the copy of the proof of delivery to his office, so having had these two, there is no way he can say I did not resign or he didn't get it.

This is the third time you are facing an impeachment in Abia state. For so long what kept you going?

What kept me going really is the need to protect our democracy, also the need to protect the mandate of my people. I was voted into power by the people of Abia state for four years, to have somebody trying to truncate it on his own personal whims and caprice could not be accepted by me just like that, so I decided that I will still hold on to my mandate and when the time comes, let the people decide whether they will have me there or not and the time has come now since I am going to run for governor against Governor Kalu himself, let the people judge between us.

Before coming to that you were formally a Deputy Governor. Do you believe that Deputy Governors are relevant or according to others they are mere spare tyres. Do you believe in the relevance of a deputy governor in the system?

Of course deputy governors are very relevant, they are supposed to be part of the government, they are supposed to be assistant to the governor in making sure that they will cover the state, they are suppose to also provide for the governor those areas that he is lacking, because no one man has all the wisdom in the world to be able to govern a state successfully, so usually it is always a position of this nature where two people will work together harmoniously so that the ends of the election will be seen, which is to provide good governance to people, unfortunately, people like Governor Kalu who manage to find themselves into power tried to personalized the government and that is not what democracy is all about, it is our own opposition to the personalization of government that has led to this type of friction, I believe that deputy governors are very relevant in every system otherwise you won't have chairmen of corporations and deputy chairmen, president and vice-president and so forth, if you have only one man sitting in there, what happens when he is not there, the misgovernance that has gone on in Abia state for all these four years has come out of the fact that only one man was sitting there trying to run our lives in every material particular and he failed woefully.

Talking about misgovernance in Abia state, governor Orji Kalu once said that he concentrated over 80% of the development in the state to your own area. How true is that assertion?

It is completely untrue just like other things that he also said that are very untrue, and we do not know from what indices he said he constituted his development and we do not know in what area he has said he had done and besides, if he concentrated 80% of development, that means he marginalized the Bende people and that is not good also under democracy, he is supposed to be an epitome of even development, he is supposed to be an epitome of equity, he is not to be an epitome of marginalizing one side against the other, so you can now see that he is just talking from both sides of his mouth, he is not saying what is the correct thing in reality.

Under the principles of collective responsibility, any blame to the administration, you must share of it. How do you react to this?

Well, if it is a blame that I am part of, of course I will share of it, but in a situation where you keep me out of government, you don't let me attend executive councils, you push me away and not give me any responsibility, in what way can I now be said to share his responsibility.

If that is the case, what can we say is the difference between Enyinaya Abaribe and Chief Orji Uzor Kalu in the administration of Abia state and what will you put in to make the difference if God gives you the state?

Well the difference is that I am going to run a collective government, I am not going to do a one man show, I am going to ensure that governance is run from government house Umuahia and not from Nweke street, I am going to make sure that I heal the wounds of Abia state and not to divide Abia state further, I am going to ensure that I do not use the resources of Abia state in a way to further my own personal interest, but I will do everything for the welfare of the people of Abia state.

What is it Chief Orji Uzor Kalu has not done that you want to do now?

Chief Orji Kalu in many ways has not catered to the welfare of our people, he has not provided for them good health, he has not provided for them good education, he has not provided for them the infrastructure, he has not also provided for them a good investment climate, he has not made sure that he has created employment in any way, there are too many things he has not done, all he has just continue to do at every time is to indulge in self promotion and propaganda about himself and people are tired of all these type of self promotion, people are tired of mis governance covered up in beautiful words, people are tired of the fact that everything that they are being told that they've been done for them is being done only in the radio and not in reality, people are tired of a governor who decides that his personal interest. People are tired of a situation where he has created more than one thousand, putting families against each other, in terms of making sure that people continue to pay to have Ezeship titles, people are tired of the fractionalization in the state which was created by him, people are tired of all kinds of misgovernance going on and when we look at it, we don't see what is it that he has contributed for the four years he has been here, rather he has been a galore of misery for the people of Abia state, we want to wipe the tears from the faces of our people in Abia, the time is now to make that change and that change will occur with an ANPP government that will be installed by the votes of the people who have gotten tired of the government.