Abia State governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, while recognising the rights of persons and groups to canvass their political ideas and preferences has arned that timing is critical in the permutations, noting that there could only be one governor at any particular time.
Ikpeazu in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Onyebuchi Ememanka, said he was still in charge of the state and would not be stampeded out of office by people who want to alter the natural order of things.
He warned politicians and groups in the state who are fanning the embers of discord over who would succeed him as governor in the coming 2023 general elections to desist from the altercations, saying that the unnecessary political brickbats were distracting his administration.