{"id":172427,"date":"2025-08-04T08:21:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/otti-restores-dignity-of-abia-traditional-rulers"},"modified":"2025-08-04T09:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T08:24:07","slug":"otti-restores-dignity-of-abia-traditional-rulers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/otti-restores-dignity-of-abia-traditional-rulers","title":{"rendered":"Otti Restores Dignity of Abia Traditional Rulers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Chairman of Abia State Council of Traditional Rulers, Eze Linus Nto Mba has said that Governor Alex Otti has restored the dignity of traditional rulers and tackled infrastructure deficit in the State.<\/p>\n<p>Eze Nto Mbah, who addressed the members of Old Bende Progressive Union in Atlanta Georgia USA, on Saturday, recalled the harsh economic conditions traditional rulers found themselves during the past administrations occasioned by poor welfare package from the State government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the inception of Governor Alex Otti \u2018s government, the traditional rulers\u2019 dignity has been restored with the Abia traditional rulers receiving the highest stipend in the South East,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that what traditional rulers received monthly in the past as stipends was not commensurate with the numerous tasks they performed in their communities, but explained that the situation has now been changed by Governor Otti\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>He urged Old Bende Peoples Progressive Union and other Abia people in diaspora to visit home and invest in Abia, as according to him, road infrastructure, security and other enabling environments had been provided by the State government in cities and hinterlands.<\/p>\n<p>The monarch also said that the Governor was right not to have borrowed money so far for project executions and appealed to Abia people abroad to support Otti\u2019s re-election in 2027.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Chairman of Abia State Council of Traditional Rulers, Eze Linus Nto Mba has said that Governor Alex Otti has restored the dignity of traditional rulers and tackled infrastructure deficit in the State. Eze Nto Mbah, who addressed the members of Old Bende Progressive Union in Atlanta Georgia USA, on Saturday, recalled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":172425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1208,254,9936],"class_list":["post-172427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-abia","tag-nigeria","tag-otti"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Otti Restores Dignity of Abia Traditional Rulers - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Chairman of Abia State Council of Traditional Rulers, Eze Linus Nto Mba has said that Governor Alex Otti has restore ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/otti-restores-dignity-of-abia-traditional-rulers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Otti Restores Dignity of Abia Traditional Rulers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Chairman of Abia State Council of Traditional Rulers, Eze Linus Nto Mba has said that Governor Alex Otti has restore ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/otti-restores-dignity-of-abia-traditional-rulers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-04T07:21:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-04T08:24:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754283374.281088.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/otti-restores-dignity-of-abia-traditional-rulers#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/otti-restores-dignity-of-abia-traditional-rulers\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Otti Restores Dignity of Abia Traditional Rulers\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-04T07:21:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-04T08:24:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/otti-restores-dignity-of-abia-traditional-rulers\"},\"wordCount\":236,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/otti-restores-dignity-of-abia-traditional-rulers#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754283374.281088.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Abia\",\"Nigeria\",\"otti\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/otti-restores-dignity-of-abia-traditional-rulers#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/otti-restores-dignity-of-abia-traditional-rulers\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/otti-restores-dignity-of-abia-traditional-rulers\",\"name\":\"Otti Restores Dignity of Abia Traditional Rulers - 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