The Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government has granted an approval for an airstrip to be sited in Abia State, says a Press Statement signed by  Kazie Uko, the Chief Press Secretary to  Governor Alex Otti 

The statement further distanced the State Government to what it described as "a fake report trending on social media, especially X (formerly Twitter)", that  Gov. Otti had sued the Nigerian Government and President Bola Tinubu at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for allegedly refusing to grant the request of the Abia Governor to establish a seaport as well as an international airport in Abia.


"Another part of the badly stringed and concocted report alleges that Governor Otti had also placed a ban on businesses operated by Nigerians of northern extraction resident in Abia State, until the approval for the establishment of the said seaport and international airport is granted", it stated 


However, debunking the report as fake and trash. Uko affirmed that there  is absolutely no truth in this wickedly contrived fable. 


He added that the Otti administration is  still on the drawing board on the proposed seaport while the Federal Government provided for an airstrip in Abia in the current budget, for which the Abia government is  grateful.


"The general public is by this statement, therefore, advised to ignore the fake report, treat it for what it is, a trash, and consign it to the waste bin, as it is the handiwork of idle rabble-rousers", the CPS submitted