The Abia State government has demonstrated its willingness to end the feud that has rocked its relationship with its Imo State counterpart over the closure of the loading Bay of Abia Transport Corporation (Abia Line) in Owerri, Imo State capital.
Ben Onyechere, the Special Adviser to Abia State Governor on Media and Publicity, Theodore Orji, told Trumpeta that as part of its efforts to ensure that normalcy is restored, the loading Bay of ITC has been reopened in Umuahia, the Abia State capital.
He expressed optimism that the Imo State Government will reciprocate such gesture by reopening the Abia line park in Owerri.
He added that there is no love lost between his boss and the Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha as widely speculated in the media.
It will be recalled that the feud between Imo and Abia States Governments took a dangerous turn when Gov Orji sacked non indigenes mainly Imo civil servants in the Abia State workforce.
The quarrel worsened when the loading Bay of Abia Transport Corporation (Abia Line) in Owerri was closed down. The Abia State government fingered their Imo counterpart as the architect of the closure, an allegation sharply denied by Emeka Duru, whose Ginikana, the management consultancy firm that runs ITC.
In retaliation, ITC parks were shut down in Abia State. But Duru said there was no cause for such action, saying that it was the landlord whose property Abia Line used in Owerri as its park that evicted the transport firm and not the Imo State Government.
